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...bless the American TV industry! While the rest of corporate America is outsourcing, this fall television is aggressively insourcing, remaking several shows from other countries and populating them with red-blooded Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall TV: Remade in the USA | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...Department of Education’s newest initiative to simplify the federal aid application process. She is proposing to shorten the Free Application for Federal Student Aid from 120 questions to 27 and streamline the way that students qualify for financial help. “It’s red tape like this that keeps 40 percent of college students from even applying for federal aid. That’s eight million students,” Spellings said. The education secretary also acknowledged problems with the present structure of the American education system and the still-existing achievement...

Author: By Victor W. Yang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Spelling Discusses Education Policy at IOP Event | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...traffic flow around the capital. But since a truck packed with 600 kg of high-grade explosives rammed into the Marriott hotel on Sept. 20, city officials have scrambled to reverse the plan, hoisting in concrete barriers to slow traffic, setting up police checkpoints, and seriously beefing up the "red-zone" security area around parliament, the prime minister's house, other government buildings and big hotels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Islamabad After the Marriott Bombing: The Baghdad Effect | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...There's a palpable sense of urgency at the construction site, where a line of high-rise buildings - offices and residences - is taking form along the aquamarine waters of the Red Sea. Dozens of businesses have signed up to set up shop in KAEC (pronounced "cake") and the first 1,500 housing units sold out in a matter of days. The first business tenants will move in early in 2009, the first residents soon thereafter. The first school is meant to open by the end of next year, which will allow families to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New City in the Saudi Desert | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...development of the steam engine. But amid a drop in naval patrols and a boom in international trade following the end of the Cold War, it has flourished anew - particularly in narrow choke points such as Asia's Strait of Malacca and the Gulf of Aden, which links the Red and Arabian seas. Buoyed by fast boats, fearsome weaponry and high-tech communications gear, pirates carried off 263 reported heists in 2007 - 28% of which occurred in the treacherous waters off Nigeria and Somalia, where vast coastlines and feckless transitional governments make for easy marks for plundering pirates. Despite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Pirates | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

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