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...girl to be taken from her home and forced to become a weight lifter? America didn't become the world's athletic powerhouse by placing athletes in servitude. It didn't search rural Alabama for Jesse Owens, take him from his home and tell him to teach Hitler a lesson. China needs to understand that it will never be a real power until its people are free to choose their own direction, that national pride comes from personal pride in a (freely chosen) job well done. We need to stop treating China like our precocious little brother and, instead, have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...scrolls of the Buddha. It strikes me that an American psychic in New York City must regard it as a coup to be seen in public with an Indian customer like me - the same rush that a white basketball trainer would get if LeBron James stopped by for a lesson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystical Mischief in New York | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

...think probably the biggest lesson was the importance of having around one table a team that understands all of those sometimes competing but important-to-integrate dictates." she said. "It was a very important process to take those lessons and bring them with me here...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Heenan Named Harvard's Newest VP | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

...Internet - that is a radical change. Video and audio clips are embedded in most texts, often adding timely examples from real-life practitioners. Plus, the texts are produced on an open-source platform, meaning they can be updated easily and professors can customize each textbook to match a particular lesson plan. Those are major advantages over paper editions, says Dana Lanham, an advertising professor at University of North Carolina in Charlotte. "Being online lets the content be so dynamic," says Lanham, who will teach some 70 students using Flat World texts this fall. "Usually textbooks are out of date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming This Fall: Free Textbooks | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

...upgrade his older iPhone Touch early Friday to take advantage of the new software, he says he received an error message informing him the iTunes store was unavailable (the iPhone must be authenticated through Apple's iTunes program to complete a software upgrade). Adds Rose, "I think the lesson is that nobody executes perfectly, not even Apple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apple Bungles its iPhone 3G Launch | 7/12/2008 | See Source »

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