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...miracles do happen. And Frozen River is one of them. That's largely - but not entirely - because Ray is played by Melissa Leo, who's at least a little bit known for her television appearances on Homicide: Life on the Streets. She contrives to look as weather-beaten as her front door and to act tough-minded without being closed-minded. She'd do anything to give her two kids a better, or at least a more hopeful, life. That, as it happens, includes smuggling illegal immigrants from Canada across the eponymous river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grim Appeal of Frozen River | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...Anybody who thought [Cuil] was this Google killer can really see now that no, that's not going to happen today - and the likelihood is that's not going to happen a year from now," says Danny Sullivan, internet search guru and editor-in-chief of SearchEngineLand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Cuil Is No Threat to Google | 7/28/2008 | See Source »

This would happen only after about 10 years or so or even more of listening to a personal audio device. One patient I had used his headphones instead of earplugs when he was on his construction job. He thought as long as he could hear his music over the sound of his saws, he was protecting his ears - because he liked the sound of his music but didn't like the sound of the construction noise. He had a good 50 dB to 55 dB of noise-induced hearing loss at 28 years old. We asked a few pointed questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bad Are iPods for Your Hearing? | 7/28/2008 | See Source »

...sort through the literature seeking numbers that were never really meant to add up. "In the real world, this gives you a sense of what the candidates would want to do," says Williams, of the analysis of the candidates' tax plans, "but not really a sense of what would happen if they were elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Candidates' Tax Plans: Fuzzy Math | 7/28/2008 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the oxygen masks will probably drop from the ceiling. This, too, may look exceedingly ominous. But you won't die if you don't get a mask on, provided you were already generally healthy. "Passing out is about the worst thing that would happen," Curtis says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Survive Plane Decompression | 7/25/2008 | See Source »

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