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...billion of lenders' old mortgage debt for safer government bonds, but the effect on the housing market has been muted. "It certainly isn't going to reverse all the changes in lending policies we have seen in recent months, or restore mortgage lending to its former levels," Iain Cornish, chairman of the Building Societies Association, said of the Bank's scheme. "But it should help to underpin confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble at Home | 5/21/2008 | See Source »

...well staged combat sequence - in Iraq and yearns now for the tranquility of life in his one-horse Texas home town. Ordered to re-up, he deserts, despite the fact that his best pal (Channing Tatum) is determined to return him to duty. Brandon, chastely accompanied by Michelle (Abbie Cornish), embarks on a cross-country trip, which begins with him seeking official redress of his grievance and eventually puts him in touch with other victims of the war. In the end, it is fair to say that there is no stopping his losses. Every choice he is presented with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stop-Loss Tells a Painfully Necessary Story | 3/28/2008 | See Source »

...arrive at the main attraction: two honeycombed domes, shaped like grapefruit halves, bubbling up from the base. These are the biomes, giant greenhouses that shelter the flora and mimic the climate of tropical rain forests and Mediterranean farms. Enter the humid and heated rain-forest biome on a drizzly Cornish day, and you'll soon break a sweat worthy of Singapore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Cornwall | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...vegetation, to arrive at the main attraction: two honeycombed domes, shaped like grapefruit halves, bubbling up from the base. These are the biomes, giant greenhouses that shelter the flora and mimic the climate of tropical rainforests and Mediterranean farms. Enter the humid and heated rainforest biome on a drizzly Cornish day, and you'll soon break a sweat worthy of Singapore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.K. Takes Green to the Extreme | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

...offers hopelessly banal pieces of advice to Elizabeth, like “We mortals have many weaknesses. We feel too much, hurt too much or too soon we die, but we do have the chance of love.” Even when Raleigh falls in love with Bess (Abbie Cornish), Elizabeth’s favorite lady-in-waiting, the romance is flat and hardly worth the love triangle. Fortunately, the excellent score carries his character towards the end, working itself seamlessly into the transition of events. The dialogue between the characters, at least, never feels labored or clich?...

Author: By Jenny J. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Elizabeth: The Golden Age | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

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