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...world's Internet population speaks a language other than English), and it will form more global partnerships with content providers. Here are some things Google watchers speculate it is pursuing: new ways to search for (and perhaps buy) music, an online payment service to rival PayPal, some sort of smart phone, a space elevator to transport stuff to the moon. (Don't laugh. Brin and Page can't seem to let go of that last one, at least as an idea to kick around.) To help accomplish its goals, whatever they may be, Google raised $4.2 billion late last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of The Real Google | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...Brits routinely mistake mediocrity for greatness. Here's the thing, though: this time there's no mistake. Whatever People Say I Am, due out in the U.S. on Feb. 21, isn't perfect, but it's a great rock album that spotlights a new lyricist who is whip smart, funny and appealingly dangerous. He does a lot to restore faith in rock's future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Barrel of Monkeys | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

Whatever People Say I Am is the sound of smart kids doing stupid things, with a dawning recognition that maybe life has more to offer than drinking and hooking up. Perhaps the best thing about it is that it has no interest in speaking to anyone over 30. It's great for family dynamics that parents and kids can listen to Coldplay together, but it's a terrible thing for rock 'n' roll, which needs rebellion to survive. (Ever wonder why hip-hop is doing so well?) Parents will be freaked by Turner's wry narration of a life that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Barrel of Monkeys | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...rising tide of science and technology will lift all boats, but we must be sure everyone has a chance to get aboard. The SMART grants may not be the perfect solution, but they certainly deserve better than their treatment in Reva P. Minkoff and Ramya Parthasarathy’s piece...

Author: By Daniel H. Slichter | Title: Incentives For Study of Science A Benefit to Society | 2/10/2006 | See Source »

...real partisan red meat. A protégé of Dr. King, the Rev. Joseph Lowery went so far as to bash both Bush’s foreign policy and his domestic agenda in one fell swoop, stating, “She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar. We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew and we knew that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance…poverty abounds…for war, billions more, but no more...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: King’s Ransom | 2/10/2006 | See Source »

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