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...explain the plot of Vanilla Sky to Tom Cruise. Fantasy fans remember her as the icy White Witch of the Narnia films and as the soaring, fallen Angel Gabriel tempting Keanu Reeves in Constantine. Recently, and notably, Swinton has had on-screen affairs with Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and George Clooney (Burn After Reading). She was also Clooney's legal antagonist, an agribusiness executive, in Michael Clayton - a film that earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. (See pictures of Oscar's leading ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Tilda Swinton is the Queen of the Indies | 5/10/2009 | See Source »

...does the ability to buy credits really make emissions more culturally acceptable? More importantly, does the cap-and-trade scheme raise more cultural awareness about the issue or less? It may be the case that, under a cap-and-trade scheme, emissions will become more stigmatized in light of the existence a common venture to defeat global warming, regardless of its reliance on cold market logic. There are arguments on both sides, and it ultimately depends on how cap and trade is sold to and bought by the people. If a cap-and-trade scheme is spun in the rhetoric...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Tragedy of the Heavens | 5/10/2009 | See Source »

Patrick Gavin (11:20 p.m.) PEOPLE ARE ON THE CASE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tweets From a Washington Dinner (a.k.a. #nerdprom) | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

...case of the North Korea scenario, the Blue forces decided to launch measured air strikes as an initial move. "The military is one of the options we have to use. The problem here is complex. You don't really have your full-frontal attack with the North Korean Army coming," says U.S. Army Col. Chris Chae, blue team lead for the North Korea panel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea Invades! (And Other Pentagon War Games) | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

...that turns out to be the case, Sadr could still return to Iraq and reassert himself at some point with two powerful political cards he currently retains: a sizeable bloc of loyalists in the parliament and, most importantly, the still powerful Mahdi Army militia. Sadr issued a cease-fire edict to the Mahdi Army late last year as the militia struggled to fend off a crackdown by strengthened Iraqi security forces. But dormant fighters with the group say they are ready to take to the streets again if Sadr sends out the call, a prospect that has many in Baghdad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whatever Happened to Muqtada al-Sadr? | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

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