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Laurie Kramer, professor of applied family studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has found that, on average, sibs between 3 and 7 years old engage in some kind of conflict 3.5 times an hour. Kids in the 2-to-4 age group top out at 6.3--or more than one clash every 10 minutes, according to a Canadian study. "Getting along with a sister or brother," Kramer says dryly, "can be a frustrating experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Science of Siblings | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

...want a critic for a guide, this may be the festival for you. Each April in Champaign, Ill., the TV and Chicago Sun-Times film reviewer selects movies--from the famed to the obscure, like U-Carmen eKhayelitsha--that he feels have fallen through the cracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture: Film Festivals for the Rest of Us | 5/30/2006 | See Source »

...Audiences who gathered this year at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign last weekend were fascinated by David Mamet's enigmatic Spartan, and John Malkovich's performance as a shrewd killer in Ripley's Game, But it was perhaps the least known film of all, the coming-of-age comedy Somebodies, that sent this crowd - a mix of local residents, visiting Ebert fans and industry VIPs - into hysterics. A low-budget digital comedy produced by festival director Nate Kohn and filmed in Georgia, where Kohn teaches film, the film was written by one his students. Three months after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Championing the Overlooked, Unappreciated at Ebertfest | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...more celebratory than critical. "You see more good movies in four days here than you usually do in six months or even a year of going to the theater," said one festival goer, waiting in line for concessions at the restored Virginia Theater, a classic movie palace in downtown Champaign. "That's why I keep coming back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Championing the Overlooked, Unappreciated at Ebertfest | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

Stone was “cheery,” welcoming, and “available for anyone,” said Charles P. Slichter ’45, a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who served with Stone on the Corporation...

Author: By Nicholas M. Ciarelli, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stone, Ex-Corp Chief, Dead at 83 | 4/21/2006 | See Source »

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