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Everybody but Dan Brown??knows that The Da Vinci Code is not a great book; at best it's a great read. But for all the novel's thriller tropes, its chases among chalices and cilices, the publishing phenomenon of the decade is a very bookish book. The games Brown plays are essentially literary: anagrams and hexagrams, fun with the Fibonacci Sequence. Those riddles are best savored by readers with a long night or a long flight ahead of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Da Vinci Coma | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

...solar energy, accounting for nearly half of all U.S. solar sales of $190 million last year. The state has plenty of sun and plenty of activists who see nonpolluting solar energy as the benign antidote to nuclear power. It also has a generous law-put through by Governor Jerry Brown???that allows 55% of solar costs, up to a maximum of $3,000, to be written off as a credit against state income taxes. The resulting demand has persuaded more than half of America's solar manufacturers, including Arco Solar, the well-bankrolled subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield, to locate their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Solar Sell | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

...virgin, however, signifies an extraordinary event: a message that God's will, and not man's, was involved. New Testament Exegete Raymond Brown, probably the premier Catholic scriptural scholar in the U.S., is one of those who are deeply interested in the question of Jesus' virginal conception. Brown???the only American member now on the Pontifical Biblical Commission?has cautiously suggested that the church reopen the question to concentrated scholarly research, at least partly because other Christians are calling the virgin birth into public question. But he is also wary of shocking the beliefs of the pious, and thus spends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BIBLE:THE BELIEVERS GAIN | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

...midst of this unparalleled abundance, another nation dwells in grinding deprivation. It comprises the 29,700,000 Americans who are denied access to the wealth that surrounds them ?a group three times the population of Belgium. They are the men, women and children?black, white, red, yellow and brown???who live below the "poverty line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A NATION WITHIN A NATION | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER? F. Yeats-Brown???Viking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Near-Masterpiece-- | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

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