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...what do you learn from Sudoku? Where's the allusive fun? The numbers in a Sudoku box are dry, curt, numbing; they live only in their own, square, self-contained universe; they refer to nothing but themselves. Numbers lack the allusiveness of words, their reverberations, their playfulness - how they rub up against one another and transform themselves. Add an S to comic and get cosmic; add one to laughter and get slaughter. You don't get this alchemy with numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Sudoku? | 6/17/2006 | See Source »

...what's keeping the site alive? Loopholes in Russian law that sanction organizations such as ROMS may provide some legal cover. Prosecutors are also overwhelmed with violent crime and corruption cases and lack the resources to tackle complex copyright disputes. The IFPI has, in fact, filed three complaints, pleading with the Moscow City Prosecutor to launch a criminal probe. The prosecutor eventually agreed to pursue cases against MediaServices managing director Vadim Mamotin and a former official, Denis Kvasov, and on April 21 impounded a computer server, though the site was up and running the next day. One of those cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Brand of iTunes | 6/13/2006 | See Source »

...results for children and adults who suffer from autism as well as many other neurological disabilities. Basil Ziv, Executive Director Association for the Neurologically Disabled of Canada Etobicoke, Canada "A tale of two schools" clarified the importance of treating the core deficits of children who suffer from autism: a lack of flexible thought and spontaneous communication, and lagging social and emotional development. It emphasized the role of emotion in learning, something that people have known for years and yet somehow tend to underestimate. In describing the philosophy behind ABA and Floortime, your report will help parents make a more informed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lifting the Veil on Autism | 6/13/2006 | See Source »

...Aside from a warm-up that referenced the night's festivities, Warner delivered his time-tested stump speech to the crowd, its paeans to the need for education and national security indistinguishable from what he might say to the Milwaukee teacher's association or the Charleston VFW. This lack of special treatment-or absence of pandering-is either a sign of respect or confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Among the Believers: Beating Up on Big Media | 6/13/2006 | See Source »

...pressure on zoos to aknowledge what they're in denial about - that confining elephants in zoos causes them to suffer and die prematurely," says Suzanne Roy, program director for In Defense of Animals."Elephants in zoos repeatedly have stillbirths and experts we've talked to believe that the lack of exercise and physical fitness contribute to their inability to have successful pregnancies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Zoos Killing Elephants? | 6/12/2006 | See Source »

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