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...merely orbiting the periphery of Edward and Bella's obsession. Alice is no longer just a cute little pixie; she can scheme and snarl as needed. Even silent Jasper gets to work his magical power to make us feel good. For the first time, we meet vampire royalty, with Michael Sheen as Aro, a kind of vampire Pope, and a beautifully creepy Dakota Fanning as his princess of torture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Moon Review: Team Jacob Ascending | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

When Darryl W. Finkton ’10 and Sangu J. Delle ’10 set out to improve water sanitation in Agyemanti, they found that much of it didn’t pan out. Despite its success in Kenya, Professor Michael Kremer’s model for bringing water to East Africa was not feasible in Agyemanti. No matter how cutting edge and brilliant the use of solar panels sounded at first, they realized that once those panels broke, no one would be there to fix them. Higginbotham concludes, “Some of what we do academically...

Author: By Nicole Savdie, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Getting Out of the Ivory Tower | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

Undeterred, the counsel for Bilski, J. Michael Jakes, replied that some of the examples could potentially be patented as long as they are novel, not obvious and not simply abstract ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supreme Court: When Do Ideas Deserve Patents? | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...increase in sexually satisfying events, an increase in desire and a decrease in distress. When we look at this against a backdrop of a common and distressing problem that affects 1 of 10 women and for which no treatment exists, well, we are feeling very positive," said Michael Sand, director of clinical research for Boehringer Ingelheim, which originally developed the drug, flibanserin, in the 1990s as an antidepressant. (The drug proved not to work for depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Female Sexual Dysfunction: Myth or Malady? | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...notion of “coming out,” as it’s currently conceived, developed shortly after the Stonewall riots of 1969. Michael Fader, who witnessed the rebellion, later described it as a turning point in the history of the gay and lesbian community: “There was something in the air, freedom a long time overdue, and we’re going to fight for it. It took different forms, but the bottom line was, we weren’t going to go away. And we didn’t.” The violent...

Author: By Silpa Kovvali | Title: No Need to Ask or Tell | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

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