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...when De Niro and DiCaprio flanked their frequent director Martin Scorsese - bestowing upon him the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement - as Scorsese argued passionately for film preservation, quoting William Faulkner's "The past is never dead. It's not even past." At that moment it didn't matter who threw the party; it mattered only that the best movie people made it a memorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cameron's Avatar Takes Golden Globe Glory | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...Simon Fraser University found the global death toll from terrorist attacks has substantially decreased since 2001. While al-Qaeda plots do sometimes succeed - like the double-agent operation that killed seven CIA officers in Afghanistan last month - they have become, Rand terrorism expert Brian Jenkins points out, less frequent and less potent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amid the Hysteria, a Look at What al-Qaeda Can't Do | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...Finnish study is correct, won't necessarily help forests, but could be good for crops, since you can deliberately plant seeds that are suited to long summers. But in arid parts of the tropics, he says, where plant growth is limited by the availability of water, more frequent droughts could make things worse. "Large parts of the world," says Field, "are already at the warm edge of where things like to grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Even Plants May Not Like a Warmer World | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...health care. Italian society supports the system by keeping the immigrants on its margins. Services are few and far between, mainly provided by religious organizations. Non-Italian police are rarely seen, and only one nonwhite serves in Parliament. Many immigrants simply do not report crimes against them. Disappearances are frequent - the Polish government is still looking for more than 100 Polish migrants who vanished from the tomato farms of Puglia in 2006, some of whom are believed to have been killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: African Immigrants in Italy: Slave Labor for the Mafia | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

...played - and the more confident they got - the likelier they were to get blown out on one or a few very big hands. Win a dozen $50 pots and you're still going to wind up far behind if you lose a single $1,000 one. "People overweigh their frequent small gains vis-à-vis occasional large losses," Siler says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Winning Can Mean Losing in Poker and Life | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

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