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...resigned to reaching the skies as a flight attendant--until the Army Air Force began recruiting women pilots in 1940. As Tom Brokaw recounts in his book The Greatest Generation, her father said, "I didn't get to serve and I don't have any boys, so I guess you'll have to do it." During World War II, Ringenberg flew military planes across the U.S., ultimately logging some 40,000 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...guess it is. That's kind of the joke of it. Who are the last guys in the world that would function well in an action-movie-type situation? The answer is potheads. I've definitely spent large periods of my life where I've done absolutely nothing but smoke weed, so it was during those periods where we thought, If someone was trying to murder us, that would be pretty entertaining--until they killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Seth Rogen | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...when we landed in Beijing, no one at the airport seemed to pay much attention to the Thai weightlifters. They should have stood out in the crowd, these well-muscled men and women hefting giant boxes of tom yum (hot and sour) instant noodles off the baggage carousel. (I guess we now know the secret ingredient to their success.) But as they pushed their luggage carts full of noodles past the airport crowds, no one came up for an autograph or asked them to pose for a picture. Dashiell, though, seemed to remember the man who retrieved his duckie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Your Average Olympian | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

...asks them to deliver a valuable document to Shanghai, they jump at the chance to throw off the sedate life and immerse themselves in the one thing that makes them feel alive: peril. It happens that Alex has taken up his dad's trade of amateur archaeologist / tomb raider. Guess what he's stumbled on: the key to unleashing the Emperor and his army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong Revives The Mummy | 8/1/2008 | See Source »

...entertainer or political guru, Stern suggests that the real hero is the ordinary Joe who goes to the polls and votes these rascals in. Swing Vote has aspirations to be Molly--or, in a pinch, Bud. But it's closer to the parties' idea men, trying to guess what the people want, then desperately laying it on. That leaves Costner, for all his charm and flinty ambiguity, a loser in this poll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's the Election, Stupid | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

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