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...become a Moyers trademark. After 46 years of working together, Bill, 66, and Judith, 65, have created an oeuvre that has in turn attracted its own audience. On Our Own Terms is only the latest in a series of Moyers' PBS documentaries that speak directly to the 77 million-strong baby-boom generation, which has been dictating the national agenda since coming of age in the 1960s. As wise and benevolent Uncle Bill and Aunt Judith, the Moyerses are reaching boomers through television, the medium they grew up with, about the issues that concern them at key passages in their...
...Lesson 1, according to Wednesday's Wall Street Journal: Instant Messaging, the real-time, buddy-listed way to chat online that's more popular with teenagers than 'N Sync and is widely expected to be next frontier of all things e-. AOL owns 90 percent of the 150-million-strong IM market and, more important, has continually thwarted attempts by Microsoft and other small IM players to tap into its system and reach its users. TIME Silicon Valley correspondent Chris Taylor says that's just the kind of piggish, anti-spirit-of-the-Net behavior that the feds would hate...
LANDLOCKED China's 2.5 million-strong army looks terrifying--it's six times as large as Taiwan's--but it would have a hard time getting to Taiwan. China doesn't have enough ships to move its troops to the island, and it lacks a "blue-water navy" to protect its naval assets. EDGE Taiwan...
Radcliffe College alumnae have wondered in the past how they might ensure that the Institute maintains a commitment to women and gender, only one of many academic disciplines to be studied at the $300 million-strong Institute...
Wahid is from a distinguished family of Muslim leaders. Known for his mischievous wit, the multilingual scholar speaks English and Arabic fluently. He studied in Iraq and Egypt, and heads the 30 million-strong Nahdlatul Ulama, a nationwide association that runs traditional Islamic schools. But he also is a lover of Western literature and classical music, has a long record of opposing religious extremism and speaking out on behalf of the Christian and Chinese minorities in Indonesia and has even recommended opening diplomatic relations with Israel--much to the fury of more conservative Islamic groups. "Gus Dur is a pluralist...