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So what's the band been doing? Breaking up mostly. The current lineup has just one original member, Axl Rose. The rest, including guitar savant Slash, departed years ago, presumably too intrigued by the Internet and other human advances to stay locked up in a recording studio with their famously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy, at Last | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

It's not surprising that Yang is stepping down as chief executive of Yahoo! His failure in June to accept an offer from Microsoft that would have paid stockholders $33 a share was the coup de schnook. So why didn't the board of directors oust him by Labor Day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yang's Exit: Did Yahoo!'s Chief Get Played by Google? | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

It's a surprising figure, since the 79 million people in the baby-boomer age bracket enjoyed more economic success than any other generation in U.S. history. Their sheer size, along with their higher educational attainments and output levels, drove exceptional income growth, though these big spenders weren't big...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Financial Woes Force Boomers to Work Longer. That's Good | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is not the sort of politician who likes to bite his tongue. But that's just what he found himself doing in the eight months following his surprising and colorful presidential campaign. (See pictures of Huckabee's campaign here.)

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huckabee's Score-Settling Book | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

This year, NSSE surveyed more than 380,000 randomly selected students at 722 four-year colleges and universities. And the results were surprising. Rather than showing vast differences between schools, the survey highlighted huge disparities in how well each campus was engaging all of its students. For instance, how engineering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Antidote to College Rankings? | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

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