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...ride, the Angel City cab, even uses the transportation-name-as-witty-commentary trick of A Streetcar Named Desire, or more recently, The Royal Tenenbaums’ Gypsy Cabs. Then the exorcism­—wait, was that Sigourney Weaver from Ghostbusters lying possessed on the bed? No, just some other actress who has captured that grotesque, demonic, yet unsettlingly sexual demeanor that adds a little extra pizzazz to any exorcism scene. It’s all wholesale theft, of course, but then imitation is said to be the highest form of flattery...

Author: By Laura E. kolbe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Movie Review | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

...rate response, and lower rates of growth - a waste of potential and income the community is unlikely to accept. Over time, so-called microeconomic reforms can improve the nation's supply side. But it won't make any difference in this phase of history - such reforms take years to bed down and for the gains to flow through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Mac, With Interest On the Side | 2/22/2005 | See Source »

...deal with the No. 1 issue from a psychological perspective: the fear of reinjuring something." Getting the patient to move--or, better yet, exercise--not only restores function and raises spirits, it also prevents the cascade of health problems that stem from paralyzing pain. "If you're lying in bed all day," explains UCSF's Palmer, "you're going to have more problems from a cardiac standpoint, a pulmonary standpoint and a mental-health standpoint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right (and Wrong) Way to Treat Pain | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

CONVICTED. CHRISTOPHER PITTMAN, 15, teenager who claimed taking the antidepressant Zoloft led him to shoot his grandparents in their bed in 2001; on two counts of murder; in Charleston, S.C. Though jurors rejected the Zoloft defense, they agonized over trying Pittman, who was 12 when he committed the crime, as an adult. He was sentenced to the minimum term of 30 years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 28, 2005 | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...behind the scenes." But he has his own, odd kind of principle. In the first season's most arresting scene, he smothers to death a preacher who is dying slowly of a brain tumor. The act is tender and cruel, merciful and selfish (the reverend is taking up a bed in the Gem), and McShane simply leaves us to ponder which motivation is dominant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: So Wicked, He's Good | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

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