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It’s do-or-die for the Harvard women’s basketball team...

Author: By Molly E. Kelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Looks To Keep Pace in Race | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

...cast by a name. This is not a technique that we invented - Hitchcock is famous for it, in Psycho - but that was always the plan. You kill the famous person and it's very destabilizing. You think the movie is about the first person you see, and then they die, and 10 minutes in, you have the same sense of unpredictability that the other soldiers have. You identify with them, but you're not really sure who's the most valuable to the story, because the story has just inverted the normal valuing system of famous-means-they-live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oscar Week: Hurt Locker Writer Mark Boal | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...sand, and farmers who depend upon the river for irrigation are watching the expanding sandbars as nervously as the boat captains. "If there is no water in the coming days," says 59-year-old farmer Vu Thi La, who just put in her spring rice seedlings, "it will all die...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam Feels the Heat of a 100-Year Drought | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...hard to remember your manners when you think you're about to die. The human species may have developed an elaborate social and behavioral code, but we drop it fast when we're scared enough - as any stampeding mob reveals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Titanic vs. Lusitania: How People Behave in a Disaster | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...fact be useless. Their transport consists primarily of high-performance Ford trucks that break down without clean high-octane gasoline that's hard to find in Iraq. And such is the capacity of their resupply operation that they beg for water from passing foreign convoys. "They'd die out here in summer if it wasn't for us," says one American security contractor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dangerous Omens for an Iraq Without U.S. Troops | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

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