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Today's best sitcoms have adapted by relearning their art from the genres that superseded them. The Office borrows its mockumentary format and the device of interviewing characters in "confessionals" from reality TV. This is a perfect fit for a show that's about the mundane routine of work life, but the filming technique - in which the handheld camera reacts almost like another character - also lends itself to sitcom wackiness. The opening of its post-Super Bowl episode (a fire drill goes wrong, leading to chaos that includes a cat being thrown through a ceiling panel) was probably the funniest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Laugh Track Required: The Comeback of the Sitcom | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...Doni river, a 93-mile stretch of water in north Karnataka has come to be known as "the Yellow River of Bijapur," after China's Hwang Ho. While the Chinese river is infamous for its sudden changes in course, the Indian version, whose water many consider no longer fit for human consumption, is gaining notoriety for its unpredictable nature - flash floods one day, barely a trickle the next. "We need to find a way of storing the excess water and using it through the rest of the year," says A.K. Bajaj, Chairman of India's Central Water Commission. (Read "India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Floods Reveal Climate Change Specter | 10/11/2009 | See Source »

...Scientists have not really understood how the double helix folds to fit into the nucleus of a human cell,” said co-first author Erez Lieberman-Aiden, a researcher at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and in the laboratory of Eric S. Lander at the Broad Institute. “This new approach enabled us to probe exactly that question...

Author: By Manning Ding, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scientists Discover 3D Genome Structure | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...understands that finding that perfect fit takes time...

Author: By Christen B. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bringing the High Seas Home | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...billionaire leader - devilishly portrayed by Moretti - is found guilty on corruption charges and makes a menacing declaration from the courthouse steps: "With my conviction, our democracy has been transformed into a regime, and all free men have the right to react against it in any way they see fit." As the fictional Prime Minister pulls away in his limousine, a mob sets the courthouse ablaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandal-Hit Berlusconi Must Face Criminal Charges | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

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