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This isn't the kind of problem most school chiefs in the U.S. have to worry about. A year ago, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm gave Bobb, the former president of Washington, D.C.'s Board of Education, the task of ending the financial crisis that has devastated the Detroit public-school system. In the past decade, the number of Detroit public-school students has plummeted from more than 167,000 to 84,600, mainly because of the emergence of charter schools and the middle class's exodus to the suburbs. It could fall further, to 65,000 in the next four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Robert Bobb Fix Detroit's Public Schools? | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

Washington, 55, is some kind of deity - a man of God if not the Lord himself - in The Book of Eli, the grand and grimy post-apocalyptic western from the twin auteurs Allen and Albert Hughes. They must have recognized an anomaly in Washington's quarter-century star career: that, like Tom Hanks but not many others, he's been a major movie male without anchoring an action franchise. (He hasn't even made a sequel, though there may soon be one to Inside Man.) A two-time Oscar winner - Best Actor for Training Day, Best Supporting Actor for Glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Savior: Denzel Washington in Book of Eli | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...itself between the two and preventing infection. If ibalizumab was so good at tamping down HIV in AIDS patients who were already infected, then maybe it could be tweaked to prevent AIDS in the first place. In other words, maybe it could become a vaccine - just a whole different kind of vaccine that bypassed the traditional, and frustrating, process of figuring out what the immune system needs to fight HIV. (See pictures of the Red Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Ho: The Man Who Could Beat AIDS | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...lack of computerized coordination of sales data among remote bookstores means that publishers rely heavily on newspaper best-seller lists and, perhaps more importantly, on feedback from bookstore owners to divine what kind of book the Indian reader want. There is no equivalent to Oprah Winfrey - whose television show has been launching best-sellers in the U.S. for years - so boosting sales still requires a personal touch. Authors looking to increase their numbers are compelled to visit bookstores large and small to talk up their book. This word-of-mouth method among booksellers still reigns supreme in India. "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Jaipur, the Indian Book Market Comes Into Its Own | 1/24/2010 | See Source »

...line, and evidently when you cheat on your cancer-stricken wife, lie about it to everyone while running for President and then decline to acknowledge fathering a love child for two years, you've crossed it. Given the towering stack of strikes against him, can Edwards resume any kind of public life? Short of curing his wife's cancer, is there anything he could do to get people to at least tolerate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can John Edwards' Dreadful Image Be Rehabilitated? | 1/23/2010 | See Source »

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