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...consequence of his penchant for hunting. Meanwhile, Scott’s mother (Jill Hennessy) longs for her former life in Queens as she tries to overlook her struggling marriage. Finally, the catalyst of much of the film’s action is the return of Scott’s older brother, Jimmy (Kieran Culkin), from the army. “Lymelife” marches to its own idiosyncratic, internal rhythm—both figuratively and literally, as Steve Martini, the director’s brother, scored the film. In the opening scene, the quick cross-cuts between shots of live...

Author: By Lillian Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lymelife | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

Fortunately, there are a tremendous number of relatively simple changes that can green older homes, from historic ones like Lincoln's Cottage to your own postwar abode. And efficiency upgrades can save more than just the earth; they can help shield property owners from rising power costs. Moreover, a nationwide effort to improve existing buildings could create hundreds of thousands of green jobs. (In addition to using less raw materials, renovations are often more labor-intensive per dollar spent than new construction is.) "There's an enormous opportunity here," says Lane Burt, an energy-policy analyst with the Natural Resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greening This Old House | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...seem an overambitious and naive presage of disaster if the President's financial policies are inadequate to meet the crisis; his budget proposals are gutted by Congress; and his attempts to leave Iraq, fight in Afghanistan and negotiate with the Iranians turn sour. "Those of us who are older and more scarred have to be skeptical about all that Obama is trying to do," says William Galston, a Clinton White House policy adviser. "If he's right, our traditional notion of the limits of the possible - the idea that Washington can only handle so much at one time - will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Klein on the President's Impressive Performance Thus Far | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...costly to "open" a film. And because theaters don't allow them time to build an audience. The filmmakers get them made, but can't get them to audiences. With their focus on films aimed at the 18-25 demographic, the big exhibition chains are alienating older filmgoers and failed to grow and diversify their audiences. Many adults can't find anything they want to see at a multiplex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ebertfest: Roger Ebert's Very Own Film Festival | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

...Falk and the others identified seven specific features of Flo's brain that seem to be more-evolved versions of key characteristics of the much older A. africanus brain. "Over the entire cerebral cortex, there are advanced features that make it look like a very fancy brain," says Falk. "H. floresiensis was clearly there a long time, because it developed its own features...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hobbit: Out of Africa | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

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