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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Japan and Germany make cars. Saudi Arabia pumps oil. China supplies the world with socks and toys and flat-screen TVs. What does the United States produce? Lots of stuff, but in recent years this country's No. 1 export--by far--has been debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's No. 1 Export: Debt | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

Miracle at St. Anna opens with images of John Wayne and his men in the World War II movie The Longest Day flickering on a TV screen in harsh black and white. Make that all white. An elderly African American (Laz Alonso) stares at the TV and murmurs, "Pilgrim, we fought for this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spike Lee Goes to War with Miracle at St. Anna | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...money is on the screen, and so are his prickliness and passion. Tender, angry, unafraid of mixing comedy and sentiment, Lee's pictures bulge with so many ideas, they're hard to contain. Sometimes he holds them together through sheer nerve, as in the loopy racial satire Bamboozled; in other films, like Do the Right Thing, the story eventually explodes in the moviegoer's face. All the audience can expect is to be lectured, hassled and entertained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spike Lee Goes to War with Miracle at St. Anna | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...Bingo. The hacker read Palin's e-mails and, soon, after, screen shots appeared on Wikileaks, a website dedicated to posting leaked government and corporate documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Those Crazy Internet Security Questions | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

...listening to politicians. Many students taking a government class this semester have been assigned to watch the presidential debate this Friday, September 26 (and others, apparently, will be watching it of their own volition). Learning should obvi be fun and interesting, so just as Stephen Colbert created the Green Screen Challenge to make Presidential Hopeful John McCain more interesting, FM has created a way for you to get the most out of your debate experience...

Author: By Lauren J. Vargas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alcohol, Taxes, Alaska, Oh My! | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

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