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Action-movie stars have become geriatric lately. Arnold is Governor, Sly is about to become a reality-show host, Jean-Claude Van Damme toils in direct-to-video. Jackie Chan is almost a creaky 50, and Jet Li doesn't work much anymore. The genre needs another hero, and Jaa (Thai name: Phanom Yeerum) is the fellow to fill the void. He's young--28--and good-looking, with a quiet élan to match his athletic skill. He's also a throwback to kung-fu film's early days, when stars and stunt men alike took a licking...
...disturbance that sweeps across equatorial waters at intervals of 30 to 60 days. Under its influence, says climatologist Wayne Higgins of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the atmosphere at mid-latitudes can undergo dramatic rearrangement. The result: a classic configuration called the Pineapple Express, in which the jet stream steers powerful cyclonic systems over warm waters near Hawaii, where they tank up with moisture before slamming into the West Coast. That is what happened around the first of the year, when back-to-back storms swept through California, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and Utah and then went...
Determined to prove the naysayers wrong, Dahiyat went to the supercomputer at Caltech's famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "I said, 'Here's the shape I want to make. Tell us the sequence,'" he recalls. By the end of the day, the computer gave him billions of possible amino-acid combinations and recommended the best one. Dahiyat threw that sequence into a small, tunnel-like device. About a minute later, he noticed that the protein was taking form. "I could see it wasn't spaghetti," he says. "I said, 'Oh, my God, we've got structure...
...colleagues and stars, Abrams is cheerful and eager--"a kid in a candy store," says Garner--but perfectionist. For Lost's pilot, he bought a passenger jet, over the objections of his crew, who wanted to use a smaller plane, and had it chopped up and shipped to the set in Hawaii. When this year's Alias season premiere failed to blow his socks off, he reshot the whole thing, in five days. The fans pay him back in cultlike intensity. Fans on the Internet spin extended Lost theories: that the castaways are dead and in limbo, that the polar...
Summers may be among the jet-set crowd in Washington and Cambridge, but he’s still a little rough around the edges when it comes to partying...