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...It’s enough to believe that Von Trier is playing an enormous joke on his audience when Gainsbourg remarks grinningly to her husband, “Dreams are of no interest to modern psychology. Freud is dead, isn’t he?” A half hour of ejaculated blood and severed female anatomy later, “Antichrist” has done as much as show that if Freud isn’t dead, he’s certainly fair game for some extreme and rather thickheaded interpretations...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Antichrist | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

Limone sorbet •200 grams lemon juice •300 grams sugar •500 grams water, in which the zest of one lemon - without the pith - has been soaked for one hour and strained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gelato Recipes: Favorites from a Maestro at Gelato U. | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...strawberries, sprinkle with lemon juice and sugar, let them sit for an hour. Add water, mix with a hand blender. Freeze in ice cream maker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gelato Recipes: Favorites from a Maestro at Gelato U. | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...that states could decide whether or not to observe. The first year, only 19 states participated in daylight saving. As the years passed, more states acquiesced to the Federal Government's daylight saving schedule - which was created for energy-saving purposes, with the idea that an extra hour of daylight in the winter would cause people to use less oil. Arizona never adopted the new time plan on the grounds that it was too hot out to "spring forward" an hour in the summer. Daylight hours don't vary much in Hawaii, and the tropical state has never needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do Countries Determine Their Time Zones? | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...zones, there's no reason that Russia, 180 times larger and with many millions more people, can't change its clocks to please its easternmost citizens. Two years ago, the U.S. saved energy by starting daylight saving three weeks earlier. Nepal is 15 minutes ahead of India but an hour and 15 minutes behind China. Iran can't decide what to do about daylight saving; its parliament wants to observe it, while President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says no. And in 2007, President Hugo Chávez set Venezuela's clocks forward 30 minutes, supposedly to make the country more productive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do Countries Determine Their Time Zones? | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

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