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...Sweeney Todd might have been written for Burton. It's a festival of his obsessions, set to dissonant music. Batman: a mysterious crusader prowls through the night, administering justice as he sees it. Beetlejuice, the dead (Sweeney and his victims) dwell just above the living (Mrs. Lovett and her customers). Sweeney is a figure of pathos with a sure tonsorial touch: Edward Scissorhands, meet Edward Razorhands. As in so many of his films, and all the ones starring Depp, Burton celebrates oddball outsiders who create their own rules, and often perish by them. The new movie also gives a darker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweeney Todd: Horror and Humanity | 12/21/2007 | See Source »

...Bawa's legacy, if not his personal renown, continues to thrive because he was not aloof but a collaborator, and because the ideas behind his aristocratic demeanor were essentially democratic - namely, that local tradition must be valued in a globalized world, and the future and the past need not dwell in separate houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lord of the Jungle | 12/19/2007 | See Source »

...fear that a rush to cash in on forest conservation could end up hurting the indigenous people - whether the rubber tappers of Brazil or the forest dwellers of Aceh - that it should benefit most. After all, history has not been good to native people in the developing world who dwell on suddenly valuable land. The key will be to manage avoided deforestation projects properly, to make sure they are truly win-win. "The value of a forest is not only carbon sequestration, but biodiversity, and the lives of those in the forests themselves," says Manuel Silva de Cunha, president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Life of Trees | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

Pinker, Goodall, and Wrangham are members of a colony of approximately 24 cotton-top tamarins that dwell in Harvard’s Cognitive Evolutionary Laboratory. The lab, led by psychology professor Marc D. Hauser, tries to better understand human cognitive ability by studying our distant evolutionary cousins...

Author: By Michal Labik and Kevin C. Leu, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Testing Monkeys—for Jealousy | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...thank you” to the bull that died to feed me. I never livestream footage from a slaughterhouse, and from here on out, I won’t be watching any more bullfights either. Death is an omnipresent enough force as it is: Why glorify or dwell on it more than necessary? When it comes to Spanish culture, I’d say, Spaniards and toursists alike should stick with flamenco, sherry, and tapas—that is, we should revel in life...

Author: By Justine R. Lescroart | Title: Death in the Afternoon | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

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