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...public company is sick, does the board have to tell the world? How sick? Life-threatening? Enough to keep the person out of work for an extended period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Apple's Board Do the Right Thing on Jobs' Health? | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...contains no science. Now I am partly to blame, as an educator, because to third-graders you teach the planets in sequence, and books celebrate this, and kids boast about memorizing planet names, thinking that they've accomplished something. But it would be much more effective intellectually if you tell me what Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars have in common. Or why they are different. That's a much more useful scientific inquiry than the recitation of planets in sequence. (See pictures of Earth's mysteries and miracles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...does one get in your position, where you're essentially the most famous astrophysicist in America and one of the most famous scientists in America? How does one even do that? I've thought about that. I'll tell you what it is. My first-ever interview for national television was in 1995 for NBC Nightly News. And I was interviewed about the discovery of the first planet outside of our own solar system. So, they came to the planetarium. I'm an easy date for them because I'm just up the street. I give them my best professorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...After the slaying, Visa Kungayev, the father of the murdered Chechen woman, said Markelov had called him on Friday to tell him he was being threatened. "The first minute of the conversation, he said that people were calling his house, threatening him, threatening to kill him if he did not stop working on the Kungayeva case," Kungayev said, according to the Interfax news agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder in Moscow: A Lawyer Gunned Down | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

What do you do when business is down? Tell your employees to take a vacation - an unpaid one. That's how Taiwanese companies are handling the tough economic times as they try to avoid layoffs and retain skilled workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forced Vacations for Taiwan Tech Workers | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

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