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PAULA JONES and GENNIFER FLOWERS offer details of Clinton affairs for $1.99 each online...
Take sports. After Beijing won the right seven years ago to host the 2008 Olympics, the country's State General Administration of Sports unveiled a Cabinet-approved policy called "Winning pride at the Olympics." The program built on China's long-standing "Gold-medal strategy" of targeting sports that offer the most Olympic golds because of different weight classes or race lengths. (Fencing, for instance, holds 10 golds, while canoeing/kayaking has 16.) It didn't matter that most Chinese knew nothing of these sports. The point was to accumulate gold medals. Women's sports, which tend to receive less funding...
Apparently, because for its first 30 min., the new Pixar astonishment WALL?E has virtually no dialogue. Nor does it offer a Star Wars--like print crawl to inform viewers that this is Earth 800 years from now. The mechanical critter who is the film's hero can speak only in electronic grunts and sighs, or in one-word bursts, like a chattier R2-D2. The movie's other main creature, a robot named EVE, also can speak only a few words. Yet it's Pixar's big, bold belief that the mass audience will be astute enough to follow...
...child's point of view. A young boy watches his sister practice prostitution; a man sells his niece and nephew into slavery; a girl looks on as her Tutsi father kills her Hutu mother with a machete. And so on. These stories are so frightening and upsetting, and offer so little in the way of closure or consolation, that you wonder what the point is of subjecting yourself to them--they exist at the border between realism and snuff. There's a basic sense that art is supposed to make of the world that Say You're One of Them...
...hope, as this special issue of TIME shows. Investigators are learning how everything from family income to ethnicity to geography helps determine which kids become overweight and which don't. We explore how psychologists and nutritionists are developing protocols to help parents better address weight issues, and we even offer tips on how to get kids off the couch. (Sometimes I just take away my two boys' Nintendos, and that gets them moving--at least in protest...