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...eight days of festivities marking the 60th anniversary of China's communist revolution on Oct. 1 include tanks, soldiers on parade, fireworks and a display of 40 million potted plants. But some things aren't happening: pigeons have been grounded in the capital out of fear they'd endanger jet flyovers, one city has banned divorces, and China Mobile customers aren't keeping their ring-back tones--the government-run carrier has switched them to a patriotic song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

Once upon a time, kids, there was a TV show called Seinfeld. It was a "sitcom." This was a term for a popular genre - watched by tens of millions of viewers - in which amusing things were said and done not by politicians trying to dance or amateurs trying to sing but by professional actors pretending to be real people, for 22 minutes at a time. When Seinfeld aired its finale in 1998, about 76 million people tuned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Laugh Track Required: The Comeback of the Sitcom | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

Starting Oct. 4, the cast of Seinfeld reunites for five episodes on Curb Your Enthusiasm, the HBO sitcom from Seinfeld co-creator Larry David that a couple million people watch on Sunday night on a good week. Which sums up what's happened in the sitcom world since Seinfeld left. There have been sitcoms in the decade since - even great ones, like Curb and Arrested Development - but no monster hits. As the great comedy explosion of the '90s faded, networks made fewer and fewer new sitcoms, and those that got on the air were eclipsed by dramas and reality shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Laugh Track Required: The Comeback of the Sitcom | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...have a vaccine we would use to prevent HIV? No," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which picked up the bulk of the $105 million cost of the study. "But if it gives us enough information that would be helpful in the next steps toward development of a vaccine, then it's a successful trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: AIDS Vaccine | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

MARK DREIER, a disgraced financier currently serving 20 years in prison for fraud, on why he hatched a $380 million Ponzi scheme that ran for four years beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

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