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It was a tough message to deliver to the Chinese - basically, "Do as we say, not as we did" - but it's hard to imagine a more credible messenger. It's not just that Chu is a Chinese American whose parents both graduated from Tsinghua before attending the real MIT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Steven Chu Win the Fight Over Global Warming? | 8/23/2009 | See Source »

It's the world's longest poem - over 1.8 million words, containing over one hundred thousand verses and approximately ten times the length of the Iliad and Odyssey combined. And now India's celebrated epic the Mahabharata, the writing of which began around 300 B. C. by the venerated Hindu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tweeting the World's Longest Poem | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

Sreedharan is not the only writer of what he calls "Twiction." Philippa Gregory, author of the best-selling novel The White Queen, is using Twitter to reinterpret her book as a series of tweets from its main character. Penguin has commissioned two 19-year-old University of Chicago students to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tweeting the World's Longest Poem | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

The format has its creative advantages. Instead of telling the classic story through the eyes of a the main narrator as in the original Mahabharata, Sreedharan takes the point of view of an heretofore one- dimensional character, Bhima, one of the five Pandava brothers who defeat their cousins, the Kauravas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tweeting the World's Longest Poem | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

What would you say has been your favorite character to play thus far? -Prabhjot Sidhu, Mississauga, Ont. I had the time of my life playing Don (the Goods) Ready. I really did. We experimented so much, and I was doing things where I just thought, This will never be in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Jeremy Piven | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

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