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...films; it helped more that Dean spoke a secret language to teenagers just as they were becoming a significant marketing niche. In his bruised blond beauty, young people saw what they thought they looked like inside. What they felt like too: loser-loners whose heroism only the camera could detect. Dean's acting style was a time capsule of 1950s alienation. But his appeal, and the cult of this dying faun, spans the decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DVDs: 4 Hollywood Hunks Whose DVD Sets Have the Goods | 5/9/2005 | See Source »

...expressed to me any surprise that this occurred, although several have been surprised that we were able to detect it,” Kline wrote...

Author: By Ying Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cheating Students Spark Scrutiny | 5/6/2005 | See Source »

...Tougher Than Tough On the scarier side of robot technology are real-life battle-bots. Armed with an assault rifle and equipped with temperature and image sensors that detect and track targets, these machines can either shoot automatically or be controlled remotely. Two such robots are being used by South Korea and the U.S. in Iraq. Seoul plans to deploy such bots on its 250-km border with North Korea by 2011. Price: $79,000 each

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rise of The Machines | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

Many are resigned to never knowing the whole story behind Yurchenko and how much he helped--or hurt--U.S. intelligence. As Republican Senator William Cohen put it last week, pondering the world of espionage is akin to stepping "into an infinite line of mirrors where it's impossible to detect reality from reflection." The world may never even learn the ultimate fate of Yurchenko, who is now probably undergoing another heavy bout of debriefing, this time, of course, by the KGB. "Yurchenko will go home to a hero's welcome, be put on the lecture circuit there, and then, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Who Returned to the Cold | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...cover tall volcanoes may also indicate trouble. In Iceland, for example, the sight of a sagging, snow-covered mountaintop, which indicates that hot magma is pushing upward and melting the ice cap, warns knowledgeable residents to head for safety. More sophisticated techniques include tiltmeters or laser ranging devices to detect deformations in the volcano cone, also caused by magma oozing upward. Seismometers are used to measure harmonic tremor around the volcano, a series of highly rhythmic shock waves associated with the motion of magma inside or beneath the cone. In Hawaii, a harmonic tremor lasting for some four to five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Volcano: In the Belly of the Beast: Scientists know what makes a volcano blow but still cannot say when | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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