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...Like the Downey film, Speed Racer is plenty satisfying in traditional action-movie terms. It boasts enough auto-erotic car-nage to make Grand Theft Auto IV seem, by comparison, like a junkyard jalopy. Beyond that, there's the edifying display of people taking control of their own destinies by building beautiful, useful machines. The heroes of Speed Racer and Iron Man could be the garage geeks who paved Silicon Valley with cybergold; or Hollywood's visual-effects alchemists, translating their fantasies into pixels to create gorgeous movies like these. Iron Man and Speed Racer are tributes to practical ingenuity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Racer: The Future of Movies | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...with a friend when they heard a man's muffled voice through the window. "Have you ordered a pizza?" Karen opened the door - whereupon the pizza deliverer drew a 0.38 pistol and shot her several times in the head with calm deliberation. The killer then ran back to the car and drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Gangsterism | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

With the East European protection rackets acting as a replacement criminal-justice system, they defined what was legal and what illegal. And legal was anything that brought in a profit - so along with oil, food, furniture and cars, markets were established in drugs, caviar, trafficked women and counterfeit cigarettes; the networks would bring to market anything that would sell. By the mid-1990s, the U.S. government had recognized that something pretty ugly was underway in the postcommunist world. Jon Winer, the architect of the Clinton Administration's anti-organized-crime strategy, traces its development. "In '93-'94 I started working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Gangsterism | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

...Cischke’s speech. She stressed that a commitment to sustainability is a choice that we all have to make.“Addressing climate change and energy security issues will require the involvement of all stakeholders,” said Cischke. “[In addition to] car manufacturers, the fuel industry, government and consumers must take responsibility.”Cischke said Ford has been developing an all-inclusive business model—financial, social and environmental—to tackle sustainable mobility.“[The model’s] goals are to reduce carbon emissions...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ford Official Discusses Sustainability | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

...name "GTA Race." In this tour de awesome, you race against other online players through the most thrilling courses in Liberty City. In addition to speeding through the streets, dodging (or not) pedestrians, you are also assaulting the other players with the beloved retinue of GTA weapons. If your car is blown up, you can jack another. Players who realize they have no chance of winning the race choose to become agents of destruction, setting up well-armed roadblocks for the potential victors. It is GREAT. It is the Monaco Grand Prix meets Michael Mann's Heat. Somehow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grand Theft Auto IV: The 20.06% Review | 5/3/2008 | See Source »

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