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Starting Sunday, July 19, I will embark on a four-week, five-ballpark quest to find “my team.” Here is my presumptive schedule...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips | Title: A FAN FOR SALE INTRO: California's a Brand New Game | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

...looming Senate vote over the F-22's fate is shaping up as a test of whether the U.S. will develop a cogent and balanced military force as championed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates or whether his quest will be derailed by an ad hoc coalition of entrenched interests and lawmakers whose priority is protecting the jobs of their constituents rather than the needs of protecting the nation. (See pictures of military aircraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dogfight Over the F-22: Protecting Jobs or the Nation? | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

...film, which follows a gay Austrian reporter's quest for fame in the U.S., was due to be released in Ukraine next week. But the commission felt that the country, with its conservative Catholic west and Orthodox east, was just not ready for Brüno and the character's over-the-top sexual antics, including an explicit romp with his pint-size boyfriend and oral sex with a ghost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Sex, Please: Ukraine Bans Brüno | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

...Timing aside, it's questionable whether a 24-hour Olympic-themed network is viable at all. The state of the economy presents any new, expensive venture with challenges. And though the ratings for the Beijing Games were strong - driven by interest in China and in the epic quest of swimmer Michael Phelps - it doesn't follow that there's even a speck of demand for Olympic programming in non-Olympic years. Given the already cluttered and competitive sports-television landscape, who wants to watch Taekwondo or table tennis on a Saturday afternoon in October? Or November? Or April? "The chances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Olympic TV May Kill Chicago's 2016 Bid | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...some estimates suggest that since Bush's policy was implemented, as many as 700 new human embryonic-stem-cell lines have been created through private funding, mostly using embryos discarded by IVF clinics - and many of those lines may now qualify for public funding. (Read "Stem Cell Research: The Quest Resumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Rules Expand Federal Funding of Stem Cells | 7/7/2009 | See Source »

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