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...reluctance to scatter warheads across the country. In 1983, Ronald Reagan called for a nonnuclear approach, inevitably nicknamed Star Wars, that would destroy missiles from space using yet-to-be-developed particle beams and lasers. It was followed in 1988 by a plan for thousands of small satellites, dubbed Brilliant Pebbles, to detect and destroy enemy missiles by ramming into them. The program received nearly $100 billion in funding before the Soviet Union collapsed, taking the rationale for such a project with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief History: Missile Defense | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...woes of being a brilliant, wealthy, persnickety New York male. Sorry those "legitimate models" weren't intelligent enough...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Yet Again, Ivy Leaguers Successfully Make Themselves Look Like Jerks | 10/3/2009 | See Source »

Harris' day job, for now, is doing brilliant parodies of straight men. In Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, he goes to a whorehouse, picks out the largest-fake-breasted woman in the world, has sex with her and brands her with his initials. In How I Met Your Mother, his high-fiving, high-finance character has slept with more than 200 women and spouts catchphrases about "the bro code." "It's a burlesque of the heterosexual male as done by a gay performer, which is a big element of what makes his performance so compelling," says Carter Bays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neil Patrick Harris: Emmy Host with the Most | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...core issue: Genetic engineering, for all the moral qualms that arise from it, gives humanity a chance to rewrite, to edit, to choose its own genetic story.This is the central idea behind the novel, and “Generosity” explores it in endless, and often brilliant, variations. Russell’s subject—creative nonfiction—is exactly what genetic enhancement is: reality, just with some creativity, to make it something you want to read about. The book he chooses to teach from, which itself is fictional, is called “Make Your Writing Come...

Author: By Adam L. Palay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Acclaimed Novelist Powers Perfects His Aesthetic | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

Egypt • slaughter of all the pigs in turns out to have been not such a brilliant idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

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