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...part. He also widened his stride, which his staff said would make him appear younger, according to local daily Kobe Shimbun. Other politicians have become more technologically savvy with QR codes on leaflets, so that younger voters can access their candidates' homepages - however static they might be - by mobile phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Twitter-Free Election Campaign | 8/18/2009 | See Source »

...sitting in my uncle's front yard in Wapakoneta, Ohio, watching the parade honoring the hometown hero. My parents recall years earlier when the first man on the moon wrecked his single-engine plane in their backyard and came to the house to ask to use the phone. James McEvoy, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the Moon | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...mobilize. Back in 1986, some 1 million marchers who flooded the now iconic Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) were summoned by samizdat radio stations that broadcast a political call to prayer. During the recent mass protests in the former Soviet bloc, it was thumbs tapping out cell-phone text messages that brought crowds onto streets. This year in Iran, Twitter and other social-networking sites have served as the carrier pigeons of incipient revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corazon Aquino 1933-2009: The Saint of Democracy | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...time stumping for (or against) President Obama's health-care plan. Once that's all done, though, many take actual vacations: Arizona Representative Raul Grijalva plans to spend four days in a cabin near the Grand Canyon. There he will "read a book that is pointless and have no phone service," he says. "Perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief History: Congressional Recess | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...have long been an advocate of cheating. It started when my dad fooled an IRS auditor by comparing different vintages of phone book, finding an out-of-business furrier and getting me to use my Apple IIe to create a fake receipt to prove a false fur-coat donation. I'm a big fan of the statute of limitations. While some would call that tax fraud, I thought of it as preventing animal cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheating: It's All-American — And It's Great! | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

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