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Just more intense, you know? I mean, the older you get... So many people that I know have died, I know more dead people now than living people. So it is only more intense. It really is just confirmation of what I thought as a young person: an existential approach to human life, that's my approach. Existentialism isn't as in vogue in Paris as it used to be, but I still go to Café de Flore and sit there and think of Sartre. That still informs my philosophy of life. What I was feeling when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Cronenberg Tries Opera | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...radical idea is to teach novices to fly a modern jet airliner in a little over a year. Unlike the traditional route to the cockpit, this course places limited emphasis on flying real planes; instead it focuses on training in simulators and teamwork. "Each person finds different things difficult," Stanley says of the challenge of handling the switches, knobs and screens in front of him and the responsibility for a hundred lives behind. "For some it will be memory, for others it will be handling skill. I had never driven a car, so motor skills - handling skills - were not very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying Without Wings | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

What is the one thing that every person in the world needs to know about energy policy? Victor Spinelli, AMBRIDGE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Thomas Friedman | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...each $10 investment is about $2.50 from CD sales and ads. The money gets split among the artist, SellaBand and the artist's "believers"--an apt description for those who contributed. "People become emotionally invested as part of a team," says Mark Maclaine, bassist in the British band Second Person, which in six months raised $50,000 from 741 investors and has since had its video featured on VH1 UK and MTV UK. "Right now things are going really well," says Maclaine, who is warily pursuing music full time. "Maybe I'll be working in Wal-Mart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crowdfunding | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...really planning to send each donor a piece of your cap and gown in four years when you graduate from New York University? I have a spreadsheet with the person's name, address, and the amount they donated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Strangers to Pay My Tuition | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

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