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...human idiocy is a crucial aspect of a genre that trades in mortal threat. If the characters holed themselves away in some safe place, they'd never meet the monster. They have to be at risk in order to escape, or get trampled, and for us to get a cheap but essential movie thrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corliss on Cloverfield: The Blair Witch Reject | 1/16/2008 | See Source »

Here's how it works. When you eat, your body breaks down the food into a stream of nutrients, including glucose (sugar), lipids (fats), and amino acids (the building blocks of protein). If your meal happens to be junk food - say, a processed bun with a cheap beef patty, French fries and a Coke - the rush of sugar causes something called "post-prandial hyperglycemia": a big spike in blood-sugar levels. Poor diet in the long-term leads to hypertension and buildup of gunk in blood vessels that increases heart-attack risk. But there are short-term effects too. "People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Meal to Good (or Bad) Health | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

...that says, learn your lines, hit your mark and say your lines. There isn't a lot of making a whole lot of making everyone on the set suffer through it. I really appreciate that on a film like this. We shot it very cheap and we didn't have a lot of time. There was no time to screw around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: George Clooney | 1/11/2008 | See Source »

Eventually, Tata Motors hopes to sell a million Nanos a year. Even before it goes on sale, though, it has become an important symbol of an emerging trend in the developing world, a new brand of innovation that makes more out of less and engineers clever but cheap fixes to problems that Western companies might throw expensive technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World's Cheapest Car | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

...believe Lee, a former CEO of Hyundai Engineering and Construction, one of South Korea's largest companies, will push aggressively for closer commercial ties, for the simple reason that it makes economic sense. The North is seen by executives as a potential bulwark against Chinese competition because it offers cheap labor, access to relatively untapped natural resources, lower transportation costs, and shared culture and language. "For the South Korean economy, it's a win-win situation," says outgoing Minister of Unification Lee Jae Joung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prying Open Pyongyang | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

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