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...traveling. It wasn't like I had to go to every city and take a physical. I haven't really gone anywhere. Each time I was traded, I tried to figure out where I fit in with each team. I envisioned myself playing for that team, for however short a time that was. It wasn't a lot of moving. It was just a lot of not knowing. (Watch TIME's 10 Questions video with Magic Johnson...
...Budd Schulberg, 95, penned novels, short stories, biographies and sports columns. But for many, the humanity of his writing is captured in just one line of dialogue from his 1954 Oscar-winning screenplay, On the Waterfront: "I coulda been a contender...
...works in a windowless 8-by-8-ft. server closet, like a Web Wizard of Oz ("It gets really hot with the door shut, so meetings have to be short," he says), admits he knows what he's looking for only when he sees it. "You can't really explain why it's funny," he says. "That's part...
...very good," Chu said with a sigh. The entire visit reminded Chu of the futuristic spirit he loved at Bell Labs. "This was a power company, but it had the flavor of a high-tech company," he told me later. "They're looking at the long view." In short, they're Wayne Gretzky - and Chu is obviously worried that we're not, that we've lost our ability to focus on long-term problems...
...government is responding in the usual way, by expanding rural subsidies. In his Independence Day speech to the nation on Aug. 15, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised to postpone the date for repayment of farmers' bank loans and to give breaks on interest payments for short term crop loans. This comes on top of last year's $14 billion farm loan waiver program, price supports for agricultural products and an ambitious jobs scheme, which guarantees 100 days of work to the poor in rural areas. "There's only so much that any government can do," says Indranil Sengupta, an economist...