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...quite clear whether Edward wants to sleep with Bella or rip her throat out or both, but he wants something, and he wants it bad, and you feel it all the more because he never gets it. That's the power of the Twilight books: they're squeaky, geeky clean on the surface, but right below it, they are absolutely, deliciously filthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mother-Daughter Twilight Obsession | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...despite the horrific fate of the toiletless masses across much of South America, Africa and Asia, sanitation has never been high on the world's development agenda. NGOs and governments focus on making sure the poor have access to enough clean drinking water, but comparatively little funding goes into sanitation, even though the two are sometimes inextricable: Untreated sewage often ends up poisoning the available clean water in developing nations. In The Big Necessity, George makes a passionate argument for putting sanitation at the top of the global development agenda, profiling the efforts of redoubtable activists fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toilet Tales: Inside the World of Waste | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...Necessity, George introduces the reader to a fascinating and enlightening universe. In India, Bindeshwar Pathak, an ordinary idealist, invents a basic and cheap latrine, and proves that even the most destitute Indians will pay for a clean toilet. In China, George meets Wang Ming Ying, a tiny woman from the rural province of Shaanxi who promotes the use of biogas - energy created from the fermentation of human waste - which can be used for electricity and cooking fires, and helps slow the deforestation ravaging her country. In Japan, George recounts the history of Toto, maker of the world's most advanced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toilet Tales: Inside the World of Waste | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...LeWitt visited Mass MoCA, where he settled on Building Seven. Though he never returned to the site, he designed the installation himself, working with a scale model at his studio in Grafton, Conn. Mass MoCA engaged the architecture firm Bruner/Cott & Associates to produce a clean-lined renovation. Then the drawings were painstakingly executed over a six-month period by a combination of veteran LeWitt studio assistants, college students and local artists, about 70 people in all. The entire project, which also involves the nearby Williams College Museum of Art, cost $7.3 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sol LeWitt's Dazzling Line Drawings | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...know, he went in there and took out both of their [defensemen].” McCollem netted a goal for himself in the third period when he deflected a shot from co-captain Jimmy Fraser into the net to make the final score 5-1. Solid goaltending and clean play ultimately proved to be two key ingredients in Harvard’s win over Clarkson. As the team moves forward into the thick of the young season, it will look to duplicate the effects of this basic formula for success. —Staff writer Lucy D. Chen...

Author: By Lucy D. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Strong Offensive Effort Overpowers League Foe | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

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