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...violence and funny without being overly crude; it even has some touching moments. Those with encyclopedic knowledge of all things Trekkian may sputter over tinkering with the mythology, but it's all justified - not particularly tidily, but handily under the kind of time-traveling clause you might expect from the guy who created Lost. (See TIME's 1994 cover on Star Trek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Star Trek Movie: It Will Leave Fans Beaming | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

...bullied on Vulcan for having a human mother (Winona Ryder, seemingly still in character and costume from a Grey Gardens audition) and chose to take refuge in the Starfleet Academy. Then comes Uhura (Zoe Saldana), who rejects Kirk's leering come-on with just the crisp efficiency you'd expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Star Trek Movie: It Will Leave Fans Beaming | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

With the cities of Sydney and Melbourne constantly jostling for international attention, you'd hardly expect to find Australia's less-metropolitan burg of Brisbane carrying the mantle of the country's most digitally advanced city. Yet new residents in Fernbrooke, a 1,000-home Brisbane suburb, are pacesetters for the rest of the country, enjoying Internet download speeds up to 100 megabits per second - around 100 times the speed currently available to the average Australian. (Read "A Blacklist for Websites Backfires in Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia's Bid to Become the Most Wired Country | 5/5/2009 | See Source »

...identified as India, China, and the other vibrant economies of southern Asia and Latin America. The case in their favor is simple. They have cheap labor. But, cheap labor is itself exhaustible. China has created a middle class, and so has India. The people in those middle classes will expect to be paid better and better over the years ahead. (See pictures of China going to Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despair and the Vision of the New Economy | 5/5/2009 | See Source »

...accept as part of the reform package. "As we move along, there's going to be choices we have to make, decisions we have to make and instructions we have to give. There's no question about that," says Obama's chief political adviser, David Axelrod. "You can expect that, as we turn the corner on this debate and discussion, he'll be speaking publicly and enlisting the support of the American people. We don't expect an immaculate conception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Health-Care Talks: Will Obama Get More Involved? | 5/5/2009 | See Source »

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