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...things that makes sex thrilling-and one of the very things that keeps the species going. As far as your genes are concerned, your principal job while you're alive is to conceive offspring, bring them to adulthood and then obligingly die so you don't consume resources better spent on the young. Anything that encourages you to breed now and breed plenty gets that job done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Love | 1/16/2008 | See Source »

...business in China: Western venture capitalists have poured $120 million into the industry since 2004, according to CCID Consulting, a leading Chinese IT firm. Tudou.com, China's largest video sharing website, serves more than a billion minutes of video per day, some 30% more than YouTube. "People spent twice as long on Tudou than on YouTube ," says CEO Gary Wang, who founded the company in Shanghai in 2005. "They really get in and get stuff they don't typically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's YouTube: Trouble for Beijing | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

...Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Al-Fayed on Monday, Burrell became the closest thing this extended soap opera has to a star witness. Sitting with his hands clasped in front of him, speaking so softly that the lawyers had to ask him several times to talk louder, he spent most of the day answering questions about relationships: his and Diana's, Diana's and Prince Philip's, Diana's with Dodi's versus that with her ex-boyfriend, heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan. But it was near the end of the day that focus turned to the friction between Diana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diana's Butler Tells Some Secrets | 1/14/2008 | See Source »

...hasn't been a major incident against Cook and his men for almost three months. (He lost five men while routing out insurgents and turning the neighborhood around; about a third of his men have been awarded Purple Hearts). Between Cook's area and an adjoining one, the U.S. spent close to $3 million, jumpstarting the local economy by hiring and sourcing locally. Another $4.7 million is budgeted for future projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebuilding a Baghdad Neighborhood | 1/13/2008 | See Source »

...thought this is a really tricky piece of material, really well written, but there's a lot of traps. It could end up being jokey, which it can't be, if you're not incredibly adept. We finally met after I finished Good Night and Good Luck. I spent a seven or eight hour lunch with Tony, who I had never met before. We hung out. By the end of it, on top of thinking he could handle it, you just liked him. Somehow that makes a big difference in filmmaking. You go, I think that this guy knows what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: George Clooney | 1/11/2008 | See Source »

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