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...site, MapEcos.org, compiles data from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and company reports to show the type and quantity of pollution that over 20,000 companies release into the air each year. Users visiting the site can zoom in on a map of the United States to view information about contaminants in their town...

Author: By Daniel A. Handlin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HBS Prof’s Site Maps Pollution | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...rapper got his first acting gig, essentially playing himself--a likable city kid--living the lush life on the class-conscious sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Lassiter told him, "'Listen, if we're going out to L.A., we probably should have a goal,'" Smith says. "I said, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.'" Lassiter, seeing promise that few others in Hollywood would, took his friend seriously and found a list of the 10 top-grossing movies of all time. "We looked at them and said, O.K., what are the patterns?" Smith recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legend of Will Smith | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

That makes me a bad person. But I must not be alone, because America has a new favorite Christmas movie. A Christmas Story, the 1983 tale about Ralphie (Peter Billingsley), a 9-year-old in 1940s Indiana, and his lust for a Red Ryder air rifle, is everything Wonderful Life is not: satiric and myth-deflating, down to the cranky store Santa kicking Ralphie down a slide. ("You'll shoot your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Generation X-mas | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

When the court received a document in which Hans Frank had urged his fellow Nazis to keep the slaughter secret, Frank dropped his air of moping repentance, threw back his head and laughed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Untellable Story | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...declaration of emergency, police surrounded the Supreme Court and evicted the judges, including the chief justice, from the premises. They were then placed under house arrest, and a new, compliant judiciary was ushered in. Independent television channels—local and international—were taken off the air 20 minutes before the emergency was actually declared, leaving state-run television as the only source of news for Pakistanis. While international news channels were allowed to return to the air within a week, some of the more critical local news channels like Geo continue to be banned...

Author: By Shayan Rajani and Hasan Siddiqi | Title: A Coup Against the People | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

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