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...fastest way to start a fistfight among environmentalists is to bring up the topic of biofuels - plant-based liquid fuels like ethanol that could potentially take the place of petroleum. Biofuel revolutionaries - like Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla - see plant power as a way to break America's dependence on foreign oil, and produce auto fuel that doesn't kill the climate. Opponents dismiss biofuels - most of which are currently distilled from crops like corn and sugar cane - as a blind alley, one that drives up food prices without saving the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solving the Biofuels vs. Food Problem | 1/7/2008 | See Source »

...says Greengrass. (Take that, James Bond!) "You get the dark past and this powerful search for redemption." And, fear not, plenty of hairy-chested action sequences too, including a car chase in midtown Manhattan, a shootout in London's Waterloo train station, and a sweaty foot chase and fistfight in Tangier, Morocco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Bourne Boys Keep it Real | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...when it agreed to televise the Daytona 500 flag to flag. That race couldn't have gone better for NASCAR: the superstar Richard Petty won when leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crashed into each other in the final lap, then leapt from their cars and got into a fistfight. It was marvelous theater, and ratings were high, which they've remained since. The last TV deal France signed before bequeathing NASCAR to his son in 2003 was for six years and $2.4 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King of the Road: Bill France Jr. (1933-2007) | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...These days, signatures do not matter as "nobody reads petitions and if someone does we signatories are a laughingstock", Magor says. He waits for his knuckles marked with cuts from a fistfight with "some cretin" to heal, so he could smash the one-time communist prison guard into pieces. The new era with its corrupt politicians makes him "throw up", but in the end fighting for it was worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For a Night, Dissidents Rekindle Their Fire | 3/16/2007 | See Source »

...creating the effect of a human jungle gym. In the style of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, one dancer, Madelyn M. Ho ’08, nimbly leaps up a mass human staircase and later navigates her way across the shoulders of her fellow dancers. A balletic fistfight between Shee and James C. Fuller ’10 is particularly riveting and displays the incredible talent of both young dancers.The second act opens with the premiere of “At The Edge of Forgetfulness,” a work by Bergmann herself. The piece, intended to explore...

Author: By Rachel M. Green, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Viewpointe' Provides New Perspective on Dance | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

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