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...proud of my reason for wanting to slap Kim Jong Il. Shouldn't we be beyond just not liking someone's face? I always thought so, but recently the folks at Princeton University reassured me that, nope, it's perfectly fine and in fact entirely human. A study by psychologist Alex Todorov shows that we form opinions about a person with a 100-millisecond glance at the face alone. What's more, you can't even blame your higher brain for such bias. The impulse seems to arise in the primitive amygdala. If your prefrontal cortex is your summa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing Realities | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...breakthrough and Oscar signals. It doesn't quite, though. The movie is clever, but a little too pleased with its own clockwork intricacy. Director Marc Forster and a tony cast (Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah) hit every punch line with a gong, and Ferrell, who's quiet and fine, seems as lost among them as Harold is in his suddenly fictional world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Charm Offensive | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...very large number of universes. The vast majority will not contain life because they have the wrong gravitational constant or the wrong this constant or that constant. But as the number of universes climbs, the odds mount that a tiny minority of universes will have the right fine-tuning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God vs. Science | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

COLLINS: My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else. God is the answer to all of those "How must it have come to be" questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God vs. Science | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...some time.“[Griffin and Uber] work really hard, [and] they are physically fit,” Stone says. “With the puck, they know what to do. Off the puck, that transition is going to take a little bit longer. But they will be fine. They are going to be good players...

Author: By Julia R. Senior, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HOCKEY PREVIEW 2006-07: Putting on the Sweater | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

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