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...more you read and study about God, the more God looks like a creation than a creator - changing in shape and character according to the social and political needs of the people who monopolize the concept. Kyaw Kyaw, Butterworth, Malaysia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...smart people and letting them do their business. It allows us to bring talent to focus. It gives me time to take a look and not make any decisions before their time. But I think it is going to validate some things we are doing and will shape our thinking. I don't think we are going to open the 60-day plan at the end and suddenly have a new plan, new structure. But I think it is part of a ... the process is as important as the product. So if you set aside Aug. 15 to wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Interview with General Stanley McChrystal | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

...legitimacy of the University's budget-cutting justifications and pointed to the millions of dollars paid to endowment managers as evidence of Harvard's alleged corporatization. The "No Layoffs Campaign," the coalition of union activists, staff, and students that has spearheaded the recent protests of layoffs on campus, took shape during the 2004 downsizing. And some of the chants used in recent rallies are recitations of those heard five years earlier...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FAS Lays Off 77 Staffers | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

...army; Korean women have no such national service obligation. In my workplace, too, a 200-employee public research institute, the entire management corps is male. The Korean traditional clothing for women, the hanbok, has no waist—it is fitted under the shoulders to reveal no womanly shape...

Author: By Anita J Joseph | Title: The Dollhouse and the Power Suit | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

Airlines were using black boxes by the end of the the 1950s, but the instruments didn't become a mandatory feature until 1960, when the Federal Aviation Administration required all commercial planes to carry them. Initial versions contained literal tape recorders and were about the size and shape of a basketball. After a number of black boxes were destroyed in crashes (the tapes melted in fire), they were moved in 1965 from their original position in the landing wells to the rear of the plane - the area most likely to survive an impact. That same year, they were also required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Boxes | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

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