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...like many Americans, you're planning to scrimp your way through the holidays, the Storm isn't worth busting your budget for. Even die-hard BlackBerry fans would be better off with RIM's new Bold, Pearl or Flip. All three have many of the same pluses as the Storm, minus the drawbacks of the unusual display. This is one storm you'll want to steer clear of this winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BlackBerry Storm: The Novelty Wears Off Fast | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...housing debacle as reckless lenders. But to prevent the foreclosure of a sizable chunk of an entire subdivision, one solution for Coconut Cay lenders might be to lower loan principals down to the houses' current, and more reasonable, market values (especially since the houses in many cases are worth less now than the mortgages anyway). That's the kind of foreclosure-prevention relief that cities like Miami Gardens thought last summer's federal legislation was going to facilitate but didn't. Which leaves communities to depend on little more than good corporate citizenship from many of the same companies that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grass-Roots Efforts Aim to Ease the Foreclosure Crisis | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...Earlier this year, Forbes estimated Yang's total net worth at $3.2 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...wish I could say that I humbly refused my friend’s offer to join him in trying out for the “Family Feud: College Edition.” My time at Harvard has ingrained in me the fields worth participating in—volunteerism, academia, journalism, art—occupations that enrich society through positive change, truth, humor, and beauty. Being on a game show is just not one of those noble pursuits. I thought improving the world somehow completely defined me; That was a lie I told myself. I wanted...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Survey Says... | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...laugh them off as a bunch of ragtag local gunmen who had improbably gotten lucky. But the pirates of Somalia proved they have more than dumb luck going for them last Saturday, when they seized the Saudi supertanker MV Sirius Star and its cargo of more than $100 million worth of crude oil. This occurred despite the attention of navies from the U.S., NATO and others that were patrolling the area to protect shipping. (The Ukrainian vessel, MV Faina, remains one of 11 captive vessels currently moored off pirate ports as ransom negotiations continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Somali Pirates Get Bolder, Policing Them Gets Tougher | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

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