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...symbols that people of all languages can understand. "If you see the same signs often, you automatically learn them and can read them like letters without thinking," he explains. Bilgil wanted to make an instructional video to show off his new symbols, and he chose the Internet as his topic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of the Internet | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

...only 38% of the $350 billion in appropriated funds - which includes $274 billion for infrastructure investments - would make their way into the economy within two years of enactment. While some Democrats defended the study, saying it did not look at large parts of the bill, it was still a topic of some contention at the caucus' weekly lunch meeting on Wednesday. "If [the CBO report] is right, it is a cause for concern," said Senator Ben Nelson, a Nebraska Democrat, after the meeting. "I'm troubled if the bill doesn't create jobs, if it's not an investment that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economic Stimulus Plan Hits Bipartisan Obstacles | 1/22/2009 | See Source »

...wife call out words, concepts, phrases that relate to the universe, and I stared in the mirror, and I delivered two or three sentences on each topic, in rapid fire. For each word, I would come up with two or three sentences that were informative, interesting and at best a little bit fun to listen to. I worked it. Then on the next interview, I handed them a sound bite. I essentially trained myself in sound bites. They can't edit it; they don't need to edit it. It's self-contained. You just slot it right...

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

...policy currently doesn’t cover or restrict gifts,” Brodnicki said. “That’s something that will certainly be a topic for this group’s discussion...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Medical School To Review Conflict of Interest Policies | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...some ways, the most surprising of his appointments - Hillary Clinton, the new Secretary of State - has emerged as an exemplar of Obamism. At her confirmation hearing, Clinton seemed completely prepared on every imaginable topic, orderly, undramatic and yet willing to propose some radical changes in the State Department's structure. She seems intent on tilting the department away from its stultifying bureaucratic orthodoxies and toward solving specific problems. To do so, she will appoint no fewer than five, and perhaps more, high-profile special envoys who will do the heavy lifting and share her spotlight on the most vexing foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Promises New Destiny, Work Begins Today | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

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