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...races no actual car was used; these magnificent set pieces are almost totally animated. The races aren't just 200 miles of left turns; the tracks are designed as crazy theme-park rides, with 360 loops, chasm-wide broken tracks, roads that wind around mountains and across rivers. The autos skid sideways and fly over other cars on stilts. In a reference to the Ben-Hur chariot race, they brandish hubcap spear hooks to disable their opponent's vehicle. And, since the rallies take place in Virtual World, there's no fretting about the waste of fuel. All of Speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Racer: The Future of Movies | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...will pay off a lot over time. But we should also aggressively promote the retrofitting of existing buildings. Owners of homes and other buildings can save energy right now with existing technology, and in most cases, the cost is negative: they save more than they spend. Doug Burke, Oak Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...Then, in 2002, the Chicago Sun-Times received a videotape that featured someone who very much resembles Kelly having sex with a female at a home in an upscale section of Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. In a 2002 interview with Black Entertainment Television, Kelly denied he was the man in the video, or had engaged in sex with a minor. In the video, eventually circulated on the Internet and sold on DVDs on inner-city street corners, the man authorities believe to be Kelly is seen urinating and, then, ejaculating, on the alleged victim. That June, Kelly was arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will R. Kelly Finally Go on Trial? | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

...Apple Store, expected by some online bloggers to be the largest in the world, is set to open on Boylston Street, where local businesses expect it will have an impact on neighborhood commerce. A large green wooden cover, announcing the upcoming opening in colors reminiscent of local favorite Fenway Park, hides what will be a three-story glass facade. Harvard students expressed little interest in the alternative to the Cambridgeside Galleria location. “I haven’t had to go to an Apple store yet, but I guess I’d go explore...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Apple Store To Open in Boston | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

...four buildings contain a total of 148,000 square feet of laboratory space and are located along Albany and Sidney Streets, near Central Square and MIT’s University Park. The neighborhood has become a hub for life sciences and pharmaceutical companies in recent years, with some saying the area boasts the largest concentration of biotechnology companies in the world...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: MIT's Newest Acquisitions | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

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