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Germans standing in line to pay for groceries at supermarkets this week could be in for a nasty - and embarrassing - surprise. Many of their bank cards will be rejected at the register, but not because there isn't enough money in their accounts. The problem is with a faulty microchip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year 2010 Bug Strikes German Bank Cards | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

For all its implications of a fresh start, the commencement of 2009 was unable to shed the atmosphere of financial doom and gloom that persisted from the previous year. In March, Harvard announced that the payout from the endowment would decline by 8 percent in dollar value for the fiscal...

Author: By Crimson News Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TOP 10 NEWS STORIES OF 2009 | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

A Harvard hoopster with pro-level talent? Yes, that's one reason Lin is a novelty. But let's face it: Lin's ethnicity might be a bigger surprise. Fewer than 0.5% of men's Division 1 basketball players are Asian-American. Sure, the occasional giant from China, like Yao...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harvard's Hoops Star Is Asian. Why's That a Problem? | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

This gap in the English language shouldn't come as a surprise; the debate over what to name the first decade of this century has been going on since the middle decades of the last one. The 1900s never got a name beyond vague constructions like the turn of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why It's So Hard to Name the '00s | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

The clashing rhetoric is a symptom of Latin America's ongoing culture wars. For a long time, a virtual feudal domain of conservative Roman Catholicism, the region has also spawned some of the most influential leftist movements on the planet - and ideas that are now in a contest with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico City's Revolutionary First: Gay Marriage | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

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