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...more like the Beatles in reverse. Beatlemania was a reaction to the buttoned-down, sexually repressed pop culture of the 1950s. Twilight is a reaction to the reaction - it's a retreat from the hedonistic hookup culture that the sexual revolution begot. Nobody hooks up in Twilight. Meyer put sex back underground, transmuted it back into yearning, where it became, paradoxically, exponentially more powerful. "For me, the appeal of the vampire is safe sexuality," says Melissa Rosenberg, who has written the screenplays for all the Twilight movies. "It's the ultimate romantic ideal. You have the allure of the danger...
...attention between tasks." For optimal use of brain cells, do one thing at a time, no matter how long your to-do list is. Otherwise, he says, "if you do multiple conscious tasks at once, you will experience a big drop-off in accuracy or performance." In other words, put down that cell phone immediately...
Another way to get a green cleaning is to use liquid carbon dioxide. CO2 is nontoxic - thankfully, since so much of it is in the atmosphere. In CO2 cleaning, clothes are put in a vacuum chamber with gaseous and liquid CO2, which dissolves dirt and oil. The drawback here is price: a new CO2 dry-cleaning machine can run more than $100,000. Cleaning green "does take longer and cost more," admits Kistner. How much more? Green Apple charges at least $6.16 to clean a shirt using wet methods or CO2. (See TIME's special report on the climate change...
About 15 organizations, including Mission Aviation Fellowship, New Tribes Mission and JAARS, put up the financing to develop the prototype and created a trust to start product development. "It was a completely novel idea born out of the fact that I didn't want to raise venture capital and lose equity control of the company, nor did I want to have to pay back high-interest loans and executive salaries," Voetmann says. "Honestly, our aim was not to make money but to find a way to help others," says Hamilton...
...think if you're motivated and you're not afraid to put some effort into it and maybe take a couple spills along the way, sure. It's easier to learn when you're younger because you develop a sense of balance through your youth and teenage years. But I would never discourage someone from learning how to skate...