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...more new taxes without your approval," says Birch. "They'll need two-thirds to pass it." Birch admits he is not aware that California is the only state in the union where it is necessary to obtain a two-thirds majority in the legislature to pass a budget and initiate a new tax. (There is another proposed measure, which Birch is not peddling, that would change the legislative vote required to pass a state budget from two-thirds to a simple majority.) Williams, a regular voter, admits to confusion on many of the initiatives. "I never know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Initiative Culture Broke California | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...very principles of freedom on which the Internet is built." The California-based search-engine giant, which owns YouTube, also said, "Common sense dictates that only the person who films and uploads a video to a hosting platform could take the steps necessary to protect the privacy and obtain the consent of the people they are filming." Google further claimed that European Union law gives hosting providers a "safe harbor from liability so long as they remove illegal content once they are notified of its existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy's Google Verdict Starts Debate on Web Freedom | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...Bedrosian's study, however, which involved 107,000 women undergoing mastectomy for breast cancer, most women did not obtain a survival benefit from preventive surgery in the unaffected breast. Only a specific group of patients - women under age 50 who had early-stage cancer (I or II) and tumors that were negative for the estrogen receptor - saw an increase in their chances of surviving to five years. That increase was small, just 4.8%, compared with women who did not have preventive mastectomy. Further, less than 10% of the breast-cancer population fits these criteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Double Mastectomy May Not Improve Survival | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

...Remarkably, Uruphong's directorial deftness assures that the laborers starring as themselves never look labored or sound the least bit scripted. The filmmaker is currently postponing further projects to obtain his master's in communications, but it is apparent that he has already learned many lessons on the way to Utopia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Field Daze | 2/15/2010 | See Source »

...August the social-networking giant started rolling out the ability to send real-life gifts by going to the same digital wall on which a member would jot a note to a friend. (First-time users have to input credit- or debit-card info to obtain Facebook credits. Think of them as Chuck E. Cheese tokens for a digital generation.) Once the purchase is complete, the recipient gets a notification on her wall to show off to all her friends, and if she provides her address to the third-party vendor, the gift shows up on her doorstep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gift Giving on Facebook Gets Real | 2/15/2010 | See Source »

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