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...other words, the social-host law appears to have broken up big house parties into many smaller ones. Possibly because fewer adults are present, the parties are less supervised, and more kids are getting so drunk they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should You Drink with Your Kids? | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...based manga publisher, announced the creation of a comics-to-films unit. Though it may be good news for any comic-book writer with a mortgage to pay, all those carnivorous studios make some comic-book fans nervous. "As soon as you start reverse-engineering the process, it's broken," says Snyder. Miller, who now needs bodyguards at comic-book conventions, cautions his industry against embracing fast nickels at the expense of good products. "You can't make a sword with more than one blade," he says. "Comic book, movie and game. It's bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Graphic Novels are Hollywood's Newest Gold Mine | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...York Yankees cap--went over, dangling by his hands from the top and dropping bravely into waiting arms. The old woman glared at us as a companion pushed her back up the fence she had just come down. Within three or four minutes--minutes freighted with visions of broken bones and heart attacks--all of them were safely back in Mexico. They would surely try again once we were gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Wall of America | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

Poverty makes people desperate. We got a glimpse of that when we watched a family boost their 10-year-old boy over a 12-ft fence, where a slip could easily mean a broken leg, miles from the nearest doctor. Or when we stood at the rusty steel barrier between the U.S. town of Calexico and the Mexican city of Mexicali in California's Imperial Valley. Through a gap in this wall flows the New River, perhaps the most polluted waterway in North America--a foamy, green mix of industrial waste, farm runoff and untreated human sewage. This river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Wall of America | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...media broke news while the blogs dispensed opinion. But look at two of the biggest stories of the Democratic primary: Barack Obama's comments that working-class voters are "bitter" and Bill Clinton's rope-line rant that a reporter who profiled him was a "scumbag." Both were broken by a volunteer for the Huffington Post website, Mayhill Fowler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beltway-Blog Battle | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

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