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...Spielberg planning to produce and direct. "The 39 Clues takes creative leaps to expand the story experience from the pages of the books to multiple stages of discovery and imagination," Spielberg said, in an uncharacteristically robotic statement. "We have the opportunity to develop this property that says 'film,' 'family,' 'fun' and 'franchise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 39 Clues: The Next Harry Potter? | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

...complex that used to house the Stasi, opened last month. The Union of Organizations for the Victims of Communist Oppression called for a boycott of the bar, warning that it would "negate the suffering of thousands of former political prisoners or victims of persecution" by turning it into a "fun factor" in order to make profit. Owner Wolfgang Schmelz, not unhappy with the publicity generated by the controversy, dismisses the accusations. "Nothing is being trivialized here, no victims are being mocked," he insists. "All it is, is satire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising a Glass to East Germany | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

...think British men are just extreme examples of that. They're really uncommunicative. They really don't want to talk about feelings. They really don't understand when you're having an emotional meltdown. It's one of those things you have to laugh at and make fun of. That's one way to have a relationship with any kind of Brit. If you make fun of them, they can really understand that and then you're getting somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarah Lyall on Why the Brits Are Different | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...This represents an actual hypothesis of how life on Earth began, called panspermia, which Wright considers to be fairly plausible. (He describes himself as "definitely an atheist. Well, agnostic atheist maybe.") But that's not why he put it in Spore. He put it in because it's more fun than other hypotheses. "We did a lot of prototypes around more of a biogenesis model," Wright says. "Autocatalytic sets, emergent chemistries. The programmer and I really enjoyed playing with those. Nobody else did. They were a bit abstract." One of the drawbacks of being interested in everything is having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spore: The Sims Plays God | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...Livestrong ride, run and walk in the Philadelphia area, some 5,000 people took part on a beautiful summer day to raise $3 million for the LAF. "These aren't fun runs," says Armstrong. "They are very emotional, tearful times." Some participants had cancer; some were survivors. And most of those who rode by bore on their backs the names of dead relatives, a rolling graveyard passing through the placid Pennsylvania countryside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Won His Battle With Cancer | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

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