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...That's the working-class-thug form of gymnastics that sends athletic young men hurtling over roofs, through transoms and down staircases, all without the aid of a digital art brush. Morel, a cinematographer directing his first feature, kept things moving and snarling with a scuzzy brio and made expert use of the artless screen presence of the leading men (one a stunt man, the other a co-creator of parkour). The picture barely broke $1 million at the North American box office, but you can bet the makers of the Bourne and Bond films were watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taken: The French Disconnection | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...This is a superior biodiesel," says Roy Beckford, a University of Florida researcher and expert on sustainable farm development. He has been studying different varieties of jatropha and in February plans to publish his findings that trees like those the Daltons are growing (since 2006 they've planted 900,000 near Fort Myers) thrive so well in Florida that they may yield up to eight times as much oil as they do in places like India and Africa. That translates into as much as 1,600 gal. of diesel fuel per acre per year, vs. 200 gal. for stocks that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Big Biofuel? | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...same kinds of sexual assaults practiced by the nastiest of Congo's armed groups, resulting in 40 being sent home, nine civilian staff members being charged and one more being sacked. MONUC is also investigating possible arms- and gold-trafficking by Pakistani soldiers. Tatiana Carayannis, a Congo expert at New York City's Social Science Research Council, concludes, "It's not quite hell, but we're at a turning point here. Congo could go either way, and it's really about what MONUC does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo Seeks Protection | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...things that is inspiring to writers is that he just never stopped writing,” said English Professor Louis Menand, an expert on American literature penned during the Cold War. “He wrote a book every year...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Chelsea L. Shover, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Author Updike Passes Away at 76 | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

...third-party interference. In recent years, India has sought to isolate the Kashmir issue even further, by seeking to keep it out of other negotiations (over trade and travel, for instance) with Pakistan. "The Indians are allergic to any indication of outside mediation," says Bruce Riedel, a South Asia expert at the Brookings Institution who served as an Obama campaign foreign policy adviser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Kashmir Be an Obama Foreign Policy Focus? | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

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