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Asia's economic strength is not a result of some ancient Chinese secret or a special economic model that Americans must copy to survive. It owes to simple, old-fashioned, free enterprise, the kind Americans love to love. The "democratic capitalism" being questioned in the U.S. is finding new roots in a rising Asia. If Americans want to learn the correct lessons from Asia, they can ironically find them right at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Asia Can Really Teach America | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

Perhaps it's just good entertainment. Another secret to Lost's success in the Islamic Republic is that it's family-friendly. Unlike in the U.S., the television in Iran tends to be in its own room, away from the dinner table. Families generally sit together to watch shows - veritable home cinemas. (Iranians are notorious film buffs, their love affair with movies stretching back to the birth of cinema itself. The first films were brought to Iran in 1900 by the monarch Mozaffar al-Din Shah, just five years after the Lumière brothers premiered their light machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Secret Obsession: Getting Lost in Tehran | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...don’t really have a secret to blocking shots,” Markley said, before joking, “I have long arms. I have to put them to good...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Markley's Big Weekend Carries Young Crimson | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

...slight angle, peering in, through dark glasses, upon the human comedy. In his 1996 memoir, From the Shadows, he wrote, "I was, during the remarkable events from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, there in the shadows, the proverbial fly on the wall in the most secret councils of government, listening, watching, observing many of the greatest events of the century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is Robert Gates Really Fighting For? | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

...cyberarmor and opts to exploit it, it will be too late for the U.S. to play defense (it takes 300 milliseconds for a keystroke to travel halfway around the world). Far better to be on the prowl for cybertrouble and - with a few keystrokes or by activating secret codes long ago secreted in a prospective foe's computer system - thwart any attack. Cyberdefense "never works" by itself, says the senior Pentagon officer. "There has to be an element of offense to have a credible defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Cyberwar Strategy: The Pentagon Plans to Attack | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

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