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...napalm (a nice Vietnam touch) in an enemy compound. Indeed, the film is best at giving instructions in the assembling and detonation of weapons of movie distraction. And Wahlberg, so muscled up he looks as if he's ready to explode, is serious and committed to the genre. We happen to be in a period when the youngish male stars are mostly light comedians. Wahlberg could be the actor that action movies have been looking for since Sly, Arnold, Harrison, Bruce, Jackie and Jean-Claude - all in their 50s or 60s - got too old to execute the leg lifts necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shooting Holes in a Conspiracy | 3/23/2007 | See Source »

...This is the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley fable with a mid-century American twist: What would happen if the Frankenstein monster were adopted by a really nice suburban mom? And if the villagers took a shine to the creature before being egged on to kill him? It's also Beauty and the Beast . Except that Edward's beauty is the beast - for most of the piece Kim pays scant attention to our hero - and, as incarnated by Depp or either of the men (Sam Archer and Richard Winsor) who dances Edward for Bourne, the beast is beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Edward Scissordance | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...political conflict. He also pledged that the majority of Senegalese would have jobs within two years, but failed to outline how he'd achieve that tall task. Back in Dakar, taxi driver Saliou Diouf, 27, pondered an uncertain future: "Next time will be different - until then many things can happen. Né la thiass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flashback | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...them so many that they told us to stop," says Holkins, 31. "So then we basically just started publishing them online. Typically the route is to go to a syndicate and negotiate for visiting rights to your work. We knew there was no way that was ever going to happen with Penny Arcade." Now their strip, which stars two young men who are obsessed with video games, has 4 million readers a month. Penny Arcade has a staff of eight. Holkins and Krahulik run an annual convention, Penny Arcade Expo, which is expected to draw 20,000 people this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Zip for the Old Strip | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

What would happen if these newfangled mosquitoes were released into the wild? The hope is that the modified mosquitoes would out-compete the existing ones, and the bulk of the mosquito population would be malaria resistant, thus preventing new human malaria infections. It’s not beyond the realm of possibilities that the engineered mosquitoes could entirely replace the wild ones. This solution would be simple and inexpensive. It would not rely on vaccinating entire human populations nor spraying pesticides to control mosquitoes. It would use mosquitoes to fight mosquitoes...

Author: By Matthew S. Meisel | Title: Shooting The Magic Bullet | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

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