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...travel in West Texas. John Carmack, co-creator of the Doom and Quake games, is test-firing rockets for the next generation of spaceliners and lunar landers near Dallas. In California, Jim Benson, founder of Compusearch, is developing a space taxi with a motor that runs on rubber and laughing gas. (Don't laugh. It works.) PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, who has a NASA contract to build a robotic Pony Express to the International Space Station (ISS), is pouring his own millions into a ship for galactic travelers at his factory south of Los Angeles. Robert Bigelow, founder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Space Cowboys | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...kids and a chuck wagon. The scaled-down prototype flew up 285 ft.--and 30 sec. later landed successfully. "My only job at the launch was to open the champagne, and I broke the cork off in the bottle," he blogged later. (You can almost hear that mad-scientist laugh of his.) "Fortunately, our other valve operations went more smoothly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Space Cowboys | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...said.And thus, an obsession was born. Generation X had the apathy of the grunge movement, but today’s youth is happy to indulge passionately and wholeheartedly—as long as they can do so with a grain of salt. We laugh about our poor choices, triumphantly exulting in our drunken mistakes and guilty pleasures. We like the political commentary of “South Park” and “Chappelle’s Show,” but we really watch them for the ridiculous and dirty humor that follows. We like our news bundled...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clinging to the Classics | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

...something more primordial. It's not that she was looking for sex, but that was the only means she had to keep the guy, and she couldn't help doing it. I knew from the beginning that there was going to be such a scene. After all, actors cry, laugh or do love scenes in front of an audience, and you have to use everything as an actor. I find that nudity is merely beautiful, and especially in the film it was created so beautifully... Chieko had no other way of communication, and I felt her despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Babel's Rinko Kikuchi | 2/19/2007 | See Source »

...ranks of the refugee population in Syria swelled, Sharif decided that serious theater was out of the question. "It's impossible to present these troubles on stage," he said. Iraqis in Syria "are under such psychological pressure, all we can do is try to make people laugh." Still, there is at least one reflection of the new abnormal of Iraq in Homesick: Mahdi's character is a bodyguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Actor's Life in Exile | 2/19/2007 | See Source »

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