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...would lay my eggs in your brood-pouch." Rod thinks he was an abused child because his mother gave birth to him in a hospital, adding incredulously, "And she wonders why I can't walk into a dry cleaner's without vomiting!" L N and Rod get the righteous tell-off scene that signals the film's passive-aggressive hostility to most of its characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Away We Go: We're OK, You're All Idiots | 6/6/2009 | See Source »

...history of the Web followed a similar pattern. A platform originally designed to help scholars share academic documents, it now lets you watch television shows, play poker with strangers around the world, publish your own newspaper, rediscover your high school girlfriend - and, yes, tell the world what you had for breakfast. Twitter serves as the best poster child for this new model of social creativity in part because these innovations have flowered at such breathtaking speed and in part because the platform is so simple. It's as if Twitter's creators dared us to do something interesting by giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...will we bring down costs? The problem with American health care, those who have studied the system will tell you, is not that we get too little care but that we use too much. By some estimates, as much as 30 cents of every health-care dollar is spent on medical treatment that is unnecessary, ineffective, duplicative or even harmful. Changing all that is going to require revamping health care from top to bottom, starting with the way health-care providers are reimbursed. While the current system pays them for the amount of care they provide, real reform would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Five Big Health-Care Dilemmas | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...finished. To this day, there are those who insist that the Holocaust never happened - a denial of fact and truth that is baseless and ignorant and hateful. This place is the ultimate rebuke to such thoughts; a reminder of our duty to confront those who would tell lies about our history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remarks at Buchenwald Concentration Camp | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...upper bed and I on the lower bed. He called my name, and I was too afraid to move. All of us were. And then he died. I was there, but I was not there. And I thought one day I will come back and speak to him, and tell him of the world that has become mine. I speak to him of times in which memory has become a sacred duty of all people of good will - in America, where I live, or in Europe or in Germany, where you, Chancellor Merkel, are a leader with great courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remarks at Buchenwald Concentration Camp | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

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