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...races no actual car was used; these magnificent set pieces are almost totally animated. The races aren't just 200 miles of left turns; the tracks are designed as crazy theme-park rides, with 360 loops, chasm-wide broken tracks, roads that wind around mountains and across rivers. The autos skid sideways and fly over other cars on stilts. In a reference to the Ben-Hur chariot race, they brandish hubcap spear hooks to disable their opponent's vehicle. And, since the rallies take place in Virtual World, there's no fretting about the waste of fuel. All of Speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Racer: The Future of Movies | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...media barrage. Reporters have been forced to apply for special credentials to gain access to the courthouse. Others must register for a "daily media lottery" for one of a handful of courtroom seats. It's unclear if the man at the center of the case will testify. These aren't all of Kelly's worries: He's embroiled in a divorce from his wife, Andrea, one of his former dancers and the mother of his three children. Mayer, Kelly's spokesman, says the singer has been holed up in his suburban Chicago home, recording in a basement studio from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will R. Kelly Finally Go on Trial? | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

When it comes to keeping your brain healthy - and working at its best - doctors have long advised patients to "use it or lose it." The idea is to keep the intellectual highways humming; if circuits aren't used, they tend to deteriorate and eventually wither away, leading to dementia, and in some cases,Alzheimer's. But new research provides a twist on this familiar advice - it turns out that some people benefit more from using it than others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxing Jobs Pay Off in the End | 5/5/2008 | See Source »

...positions and making assumptions that may be influenced by his race. Just how much of that is going on is hard to measure. But if there's a racial component to voters' abandonment of Obama in the wake of the Wright affair, it's safe to say those voters aren't coming back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama, Wright: How Much Damage? | 5/3/2008 | See Source »

...good news is that after nearly eight years of George W. Bush - who will almost certainly own the worst environmental record of any President - conservatives aren't afraid to be seen as green. There's Senator John McCain, of course, the presumptive Republican candidate for President, who was an early leader on climate change in Congress. (Although his idea of lifting the federal gasoline tax for the summer - which Senator Hillary Clinton also supports - is exactly the sort of energy policy we don't need, a pandering fix that will barely affect gas prices and only encourage Americans to drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Government, Minus the Politics | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

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