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Perhaps we would all be a bit safer if gung-ho security types focused on effective methods of tracking terrorists instead of treating even 80-year-old little ladies like potential bombers. Taking a lesson from Israeli security profiling and tracking would be more effective than treating all of us innocent passengers like criminals. Brian Eyler, MOERFELDEN, GERMANY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madam Chancellor, You Look Marvelous! | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...momentary fame was secure, his long-term reputation was unstable. To rigorous Modernists, there was something slack and accommodating about his work. The swelling lines of his TWA terminal at what is now JFK International Airport - weren't they a bit too delicious, too far from the square-shouldered Modernist grid? The bright blue exterior of his IBM facility in Rochester, Minn. - since when did austere Modernists do big color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eero Dynamic | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...eating at tables? Are we snacking? All these things may turn out to matter a lot to our health. We stress over food--that can't be good for us either. One of the things I hope to do with this book is help people relax a little bit about food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Michael Pollan | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...wheelchair-bound child and fill helplessly with sympathy, empathy, pathos. They glint with a steely resolve when he thinks of a way to prolong the lives of his ailing kids. And when he fights to bring a crucial medication to fruition, viewers' eyes may mist up a bit as well. Such is the emotive impact of the movie genre known as the true-life inspirational...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Extraordinary Measures: Sentiment Makes a Comeback | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...place I've spent it automatically pop up on this weird new site. Why would any sane person volunteer to publicize that information? Philip Kaplan, a technology entrepreneur and one of Blippy's co-founders, hazards a guess: "To tell people - friends, acquaintances, maybe even strangers - a little bit more about you." (See how Americans are spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Spending | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

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