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...terms of creating a sense of what those wars were like. They served that function in the culture. I was aiming for something along those lines with The Hurt Locker - to make a movie that hopefully, 20 years later, somebody would watch and say, Oh, I didn't know the war was like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oscar Week: Hurt Locker Writer Mark Boal | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...data absolutely convincing, he's less convinced that these emissions are necessarily new. "In the context of the global methane cycle, has this been accelerating recently, or has it been going on for some time?" Heimann says. "It may be related to recent Arctic warming, but I don't know." (See the top 10 green ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Warming Worries: Methane from the Arctic | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

Scientists still don't know exactly how rogue waves occur, nor do they know how to predict them. Open ocean waves, possibly including rogue waves, form when wind produces distortion over the surface of the sea - the stronger the wind, the higher the wave, which is why hurricanes can create such destructive walls of water. Tsunamis, on the other hand, like the one produced by the 8.8-magnitude earthquake in coastal Chile on Feb. 27, don't create rogue waves; tsunamis barely make a ripple on the open ocean and gather in size only when they reach shallow land near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cruise-Ship Disaster: How Do 'Rogue Waves' Work? | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

Will there be an Avatar 2? If so, will it include the same characters? -Jonathan Clarke, Taipei If we make a sequel, we'll definitely continue the story of the main characters: Sam [Worthington] and Zoe [Saldana] and Sigourney [Weaver]. Well, I don't know about Sigourney. Sigourney's character is dead, but nobody's really ever dead in a science-fiction movie. I think it's more of a question of when than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for James Cameron | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...They often find themselves the Senate's punching bag; whenever an amendment is rejected or a ruling is made Senators know exactly whom to call. "The Parliamentarians have 100 bosses - pretty difficult to please all of them all of the time, in fact it is hard to please even one sometimes," says Davis, the Democrats' secretary. "So regardless of their decision, someone will not be pleased." (Read "Fixing the Senate by Forcing Real Filibusters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Reform's Reconciliation Ref | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

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