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...also interested in the great ideas to come--the ones still in the back of someone's mind but slowly taking form. For that reason, TIME is proud to be partnering with the History Channel and the National Inventors Hall of Fame to sponsor the Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge. From now through Dec. 31, budding inventors can submit their ideas to historychannel.com/ invent. Next April, 25 semifinalists will be invited to exhibit what they've come up with at a national design exposition and participate in a daylong seminar with veterans of the invention field. Four finalists will then...
...genes to the suggestion that the real narrator might be a teenage Christopher forging his past. The novel runs more smoothly when the bizarre, the supernatural, and the downright impossible are delivered deadpan and unexplained. In this mode we meet a kaleidoscopic whirl of characters: scientist grandparents who invent an Inconsumable Taco to end Mexican hunger, man-eating apocalyptic coyotes, and Machiavellian politicians who hide microchips in sugar to read opponents’ minds over morning coffee. Christopher’s voice leaps in style from snake oil charlatan to coke addict to dyspeptic political pundit. A prenatal savant...
...underwhelmed.” “It just wasn’t that sweet,” he wrote in an e-mail. He prefers the innovative approach of the College: instead of advocating for a big cliché student space, Harvard College administrators want to re-invent the phrase. “The word ‘student center’ is a nebulous term,” Haan says. According to his office, Harvard is already on its way to having one. “If you think about a student center, Harvard has all the components?...
...contrast, the protagonist of Thomas Berger's Being Invisible cannot seem to invent an identity for himself on paper or in person; when he uses his invisibility, clumsily, to filch $2,200 from the cash drawer of a bank, he is so conscience-stricken that he returns the money before closing time. Fred Wagner, a copywriter for a mail-order catalog and a would-be novelist, is the sort of wimp whose wife of four years would leave him out of "contempt for his habitual failure to claim justice from the petty tyrants of quotidian life." One day he discovers...
...blue stone that turns out to be an egg. The egg hatches into a beautiful, powerful and somewhat sassy blue dragoness named Saphira with whom Eragon forms a telepathic bond. It's an irresistible premise: she's exactly the kind of perfect friend a smart, lonely mountain boy would invent for himself, although Paolini doesn't feel as though he missed out on anything growing up in Montana. "I don't think I'd have written anything like I did if I didn't live here, if I'd been engaged in a lot of other, scripted activities--soccer...