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Rival awards shows, which, like the Oscars, have for years forbidden the "winner" phrasing, were quick to notice the change. "I was surprised to hear that. It was kind of jolting," says John Leverence, a senior vice president of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which gives out TV's Emmy awards. The rationale for the "award goes to ..." format is twofold: it plugs the award continuously, and it doesn't make losers feel any worse than they already do. "There's just a little bit of negative spin on saying, 'Oh yeah, this guy won this. The rest...
...packets of instant noodles since the early 1990s, and is the creation of Tingyi, a company that chairman Wei Ing-chou built out of his parents' edible-oils firm in Taiwan's rural Changhua county. Thinking that mainland China's rapid development would boost demand for the kind of quick, cheap meals that workers would fill up on during factory breaks or after a punishing shift, he decided to cross the Taiwan Strait and set up a factory in Tianjin in 1992. The timing was perfect. Master Kong is now the world's largest brand of instant noodles, with...
Review: A quick and easy way to take the normal dhall soup into something extraordinary in a short amount of time. This is one you should definitely try…as long as you like carrots...
...Chief Economic Spokesperson. Quick: Name all three of Bush's Treasury Secretaries. Hard to do, isn't it? Like Bush, Obama has failed to install an economics commander in chief who can serve as the public face and the in-house honcho of the Administration's financial team. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, National Economic Council chief Larry Summers and Council of Economic Advisers chair Christina Romer all bring strengths to their positions, but none is especially effective at conveying either a consistent message or a sufficient urgency, and none stands out symbolically or practically as America's economics czar...
Google's latest acquisitions are all about doing things faster online and on your phone. In addition to buying Aardvark, a service that helps people get quick answers from their network of contacts online, Google last month bought reMail, which simplifies searching e-mail messages on a phone. (See pictures of work and life at Google...