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Motorola's dire straits required a dramatic reinvention. So over the course of 2008, it slashed costs, replaced nearly 70% of its senior executives, transformed its corporate culture and hired Sanjay Jha, Brown's co-CEO, to resurrect its handset segment. Then it took the turnaround one step further, announcing plans in February to split the corporation into two independent entities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Motorola's Binary Code | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

What is enlightened sexism? [It's] a new, subtle form of sexism. It insists that full equality for women has been achieved, and therefore we don't need feminism anymore. So it's O.K. to resurrect retrograde, sexist images of women in the media, all with a wink and a laugh. (See TIME's covers on women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Sexism | 3/16/2010 | See Source »

...performers, then, the challenge of crafting a concert of canonical anchors like the Beethoven symphonies is to avoid easy recourse to the habit of flawless dignity. Consummate artistry involves not only the meaningful realization of a composition, but the further ability to destroy and then resurrect its grandeur—to connect with the inner greatness of the work while stripping away the pomp that surrounds it. The goal is for the audience to like it not because they are supposed to, but because they can’t help...

Author: By Spencer B.L. Lenfield, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BSO Plays Third and Fourth, Comes Out First | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...Robert Gates killed plans last year to buy a fleet of lasered 747s. However, Gates has continued R&D, and that gives missile-defense backers a flickering flame of hope. There's no doubt the companies involved - and their supporters in Congress - will use the shootdown to try to resurrect the program. After all, the heart of the program isn't a lumbering fleet of airliners but the chemical-oxygen-iodine lasers within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Wars Boosters Fired Up by Laser Show | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...current effort isn't the first attempt to resurrect the ancient cattle. The aurochs played an important role in early German culture, and in the early 20th century the Nazi government funded an attempt to breed them back as part of its propaganda effort. The result, known as Heck cattle, may to some extent resemble the ancient aurochs, says Kerkdijk, but they're genetically quite different. "We want a breed that resembles the aurochs, not only in phenotype, but in genotype," he says. Heck cattle, for example, are more aggressive than aurochs because they were bred, in part, using Spanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breeding Ancient Cattle Back from Extinction | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

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