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...mainly because the ongoing story of Charlie's search for justice is so isolated from the rest of the show that it seems meant for bathroom and snack breaks. Life could disappear for five years, and I'd probably enjoy it just as much again. But I wouldn't spend a minute of those five years thinking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New TV Series — Last Year's Strike Victims — Get a Do-Over | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...allowed to touch the models being presented. She said it was totally O.K. as long as I pretended I wanted to touch the fabric. Webb said someone told her that what a fabric feels like is more important than what your husband feels like, since you spend more time touching the fabric. I wanted to hear more fashion wisdom from Veronica Webb, but I had models to touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion Frills | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

Tutors said that leading fewer tutorials meant that they could spend more time preparing for each class session. They also said they expected students to have a more dynamic experience participating in group discussion and analysis...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hist. and Lit. Drops One-on-One Tutorials | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...only 13,202 of the 324,191 active duty personnel wearing Air Force blues, and the service is now buying more unmanned than manned aircraft. It's a trend that experts say will only accelerate. So this week the Air Force, acknowledging that it no longer makes sense to spend $1 million training a pilot to fly drones from a desk halfway around the world, declaring that future drone drivers will not have to be pilots able to fly manned aircraft. "This will certainly be a cultural change," Brigadier General Lyn Sherlock, a top air warfare planner, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying Air Force Drones: Pilots No Longer Required | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...recalled to fill the ranks. Some also argue that the Air Force ought to end the practice of regarding only officers, retired or otherwise, as eligible to operate drones. They point out that enlisted Army personnel fly that service's unmanned aircraft, and that enlisted airmen are known to spend a lot of time playing video games - a key skill in this line of work. "It does not take a commissioned officer with a university and leadership background, and years of training flying fighters and such, to fly something like a flight simulator," Air Force Cadet Michael Warzinski said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying Air Force Drones: Pilots No Longer Required | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

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