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...will open room for great new shows on NBC, but the basics of TV aren't going to revert back to the flush 20th century days. Instead, NBC will focus not on inventing TV's next business plan but on trying to be one of the networks left standing when the old plan finally craps out. Simple tooth-and-claw survival: it's the oldest business model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons of Leno: Why the Future Failed for NBC | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

...older men to have nubile trophy gals on their arms, but we should cover our kids' eyes lest they see a 50-something woman kissing a young Adonis. He says that broader social acceptance is particularly important for cougars and other middle-aged single women, who "are being left out in the cold" by middle-aged men's penchant for younger women. (See 50 essential travel tips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Cougar Cruises Proved Too Hot for Carnival | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

...Jack R. Meyer, then-CEO of HMC who presided over a long period of endowment growth, left the organization with 30 employees to start a hedge fund after some alumni protests resulted in a flurry of negative media attention and salary decreases for top-performing HMC portfolio managers...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Natural Target for IRS Audit, Administrator Says | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

...spat may be a minor compared to incidents in the past - the two countries fought a bloody border war in 1979, and in 1988 a naval battle near the Spratlys left 70 Vietnamese sailors dead. But it comes amid a steady buildup of Chinese might in the region. Ralf Emmers, an expert on the South China Sea and associate professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, says the Chinese tourism gambit is a move "to make its sovereignty claims over these islands a fait accompli." Vietnam watchers point to an escalation of tensions since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China and Vietnam: Clashing Over an Island Archipelago | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

...done. The company's 80-plus irrigation pumps, with miles of hoses, deliver water through micro-jets from the time the temperature hits 32°F (0°C) until it returns to above freezing in the morning. By 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 10, there was nothing left but hope and luck, and tall, soft-spoken Kyle headed home for a few hours of shut-eye - sleep disturbed by the knowledge that the family had already incurred 1% crop damage. But for the eighth morning in the past 10, he was up before dawn driving through the groves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freezing in Frostproof: Saving Florida's Oranges | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

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