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This tiny brushed-black aluminum camera captures 10-megapixel images, but that's not its most startling feature. Its display is lined by unmarked buttons, and a tiny icon next to each one indicates what it does. Touch a button without pushing down, and an instructional hint appears. Slide your finger along a row of buttons to make incremental adjustments. It takes some getting used to but feels eerily like the future. PRICE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: Click 'n' Shoot | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...stampede of camera-wielding, sharp-elbowed journalists, who brush aside Royal's rivals for the party's presidential nomination. As she glides through the crowd, Royal, 53, coyly appeals for decorum. "There should be some constraints, some respect for modesty," she coos in a smoky alto. But the hint of a smile on her lips betrays her: she's loving it. And why not? So blinding is Royal's star wattage that her opponents seem feckless in her wake. "They're not campaigning against a person," sighs a top aide to former Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, her main party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Woman Who Would Be France's President | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...making a difference.” When Garrigan meets Amin, Amin is the glowing leader of the latest coup and the new hope for Uganda’s masses. Whitaker delivers a stunning performance as Amin, winning Garrigan over with his charm and luxurious taste. Only a hint of capriciousness foreshadows his insane dictatorship. Whitaker’s charistmatic portrayal never wavers, but his character fades from charming to terrifying. McAvoy holds his own against Whitaker, solidly portraying an inherently weak character. Garrigan is an unheroic protagonist, who struggles as much to accept Amin’s evil...

Author: By Melissa Quino mccreery, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Last King of Scotland | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...look at a pie chart of their assets and find that real estate is a very large wedge," says Skip Massengill, managing director of Commerce Capital Markets, a financial planner. "Yet they may not have any idea what could happen if a bunch of properties come on the market." Hint: prices typically fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unreal Estate | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

...Hint: It's not the one in which a slacker named Stephane (Bernal) confuses his busy dream life with his languid existence in reality. In his mind's eye he often hosts an imaginary TV show - the cameras and sets are made of cardboard boxes cunningly repurposed - where he does cooking spots in which he makes metaphorical stews out of random thoughts and memories to demonstrate how dreams are made. When he's up and about he's lusting impotently after the girl down the hall (Charlotte Gainsbourg), who, adorably enough, has virtually the same name, Stephanie. He makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Confusing Imaginary Life and a Tense Police Drama | 9/22/2006 | See Source »

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