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...part of the storyteller's art to reveal a single defining moment in a character's life, the inflection point at which the reader gains some insight into what makes the person tick. Huck escapes from his father and sets off down the river. Lear banishes Cordelia. Bogart reaches into his jacket pocket and gives Bergman the papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Innovation | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...single mother just scraping by or maybe someone with chronic illness--not exactly ideal customers for insurers. Instead, nearly the opposite was true. "It turned out they were largely single males, and they were working," Romney recalls. "They were eminently insurable. It's funny how data opens up new insight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mitt Romney's Defining Moment | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...asked for clarification in writing, the answer he gave on Oct. 30 dodged all the big moral and legal questions. He couldn't call waterboarding illegal, he wrote, because he doesn't know whether the U.S. has used it and doesn't want to give America's enemies insight into U.S. techniques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tortured Answers | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...turned to Hitwise data to find out more about them. By examining which websites social-network users visit after logging into their profiles, we can gain a bit of insight into how sites like Facebook fit into their members' daily online lives. The data showed that after other social networks, the most clicked-on category of sites was search engines, with 11.6% of all downstream visits. Web-based e-mail services were next with 8.5%. Blogs came in third in popularity at 6.1%, claiming more than four times the number of visits to traditional news sites, which logged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook: More Popular Than Porn | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...league to a similar level. But part of the mission Sunday was merely briefing prospective fans on the game's nuances. A recurring segment during television timeouts explained the finer points of the game - how to crouch in a three-point stance, for instance. Exuberance may have trumped insight among the crowd, but that shouldn't dim the league's optimism. Rather, it underlines the potential for growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NFL Brings a Different Football to Europe | 10/29/2007 | See Source »

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