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...ascendant power addressed a gathering that's a blast from the past: the Munich Security Conference, a 46-year-old annual gabfest that used to be populated by Western Europeans and Americans obsessed with plugging the Fulda Gap. Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi was there this year, and he knew there was no chance he could avoid the single most important issue that leaders in the here and now confront: not Internet censorship in China, not U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan. No, the question of the day is whether the Islamic Republic of Iran will be permitted to develop nuclear weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Iran Dilemma | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...dude himself: the Devil. His main character, Ig Perrish, wakes one morning to discover horns growing out of his head. Suddenly, people begin to tell Ig their deepest, darkest thoughts and all the awful things they've done to others. "I wanted to see, if you knew everyone's worst secrets, could you still love them?" says Hill over burgers and beer at a Boston pub. "Everyone has terrible ideas. And if that's the side of you that the Devil sees, then no wonder he hates people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil's Due | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...apparent model, Angelina Jolie - on the cover of Star magazine, showing off "My New Bikini Body! How I Did It!" Richard Heene convinced the world that his 6-year-old son was hurtling toward his death in a balloon. But as the veteran of ABC's Wife Swap knew, the show he was pitching - eccentric storm-chasing scientist and his wacky family - wouldn't even raise an eyebrow on a cable schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality TV at 10: How It's Changed Television — and Us | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...costly void, "a waste of society's time and money in the sense that I didn't get any rehabilitation or any educational opportunities." Most inmates, Betts continues, can't do what he has done; they don't have the tools. "I was fortunate in that I knew how to read, I liked books, was pretty intelligent, and I knew I had no intention of being locked up for the rest of my life." (See the top 10 nonfiction books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind America's Falling Crime Rate | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...that blended slo-mo falling, a la Mad Men, with what looked like a commercial for Preference by L'Oreal. (Do you fast-forward through that opening when TiVo-ing the show? I do.) But in the past two episodes, I've come to think that Olsen and Sheffer knew what they were doing and have made the vagaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Love: Shark-Jumping in Utah | 2/21/2010 | See Source »

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