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...Access to consumer debt could ease the country's dependence on exports and investments that now power China's 10% annual growth, ultimately making it more sustainable. "Mature economies are driven by consumer spending," says Nigel Lee, president of First Data's Asian operations. "Consumer credit is an important instrument in increasing domestic demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In China, There's Priceless, and for Everything Else, There's Cash | 7/13/2007 | See Source »

...EXPERTS CREDIT Bill Barber as creator of the modern jazz tuba. While playing "cool" Big Band music for Claude Thornhill, Barber impressed pioneering arranger Gil Evans with his mastery of the tuba, a background staple of early jazz bands that had become practically obsolete by the '30s. Convinced the instrument could be a tonal force in its own right, Evans included the tuba in his innovative arrangements for a nine-piece band--a body of work, featuring Barber, that became Miles Davis' legendary 1957 Birth of the Cool album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 16, 2007 | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...match it, all in one go, so seamlessly that my 3-year-old daughter - and I apologize for going to this place, but the fact is striking nonetheless - had no trouble unlocking the iPhone and dialing with it (even though she believed that she was playing a musical instrument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "I Take the iPhone Home" | 6/30/2007 | See Source »

...does the best Al Pacino impression? -Quan Ha, Littleton, CO Certainly not me. Kevin Spacey comes close. Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Al Pacino | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...course, there are nine more songs on Icky Thump, and none of them are simple. There's an alien invasion-- style Mellotron solo on the title track and what one hopes is a humorous attempt to reintroduce the bagpipe as a legitimate rock instrument on Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn. These are Top 10 fare compared with the album-stopping Conquest, in which Jack, Meg and a band of mariachis exhume a Corky Robbins tune. It's funny. Once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White Stripes' Odd Appeal | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

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