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...work In Richard Brooks' 1967 movie of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Robert Blake and Scott Wilson got the emoting headlines as the real-life Kansas killers, while Forsythe, as FBI agent Alvin Dewey, had the job of explaining their crimes to the audience. Viewers trusted him to read dialogue or, in a pinch, pronounce a sentence - as he does at the end of the movie when the killers are about to be executed. "I see the hangman's ready," a reporter says. "What's his name?" And Dewey replies, "We the People." Only Forsythe could make capital punishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charlie's an Angel Now: John Forsythe Dies at 92 | 4/3/2010 | See Source »

While Kenny's research can be read to suggest that simple long-term exposure to enticing foods leads to obesity and reduces the ability to obtain pleasure, there's actually at least one other major factor at play. Consider the living conditions of the rats in the study: solitary cages. Like humans, rats are highly social animals that suffer when deprived of contact with others. But in the experiment, the rats were not only isolated from other rats, but were also given no toys or exercise wheels; their diet options were either monotonous rat chow or cheesecake and bacon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Eating Junk Food Really Be an Addiction? | 4/3/2010 | See Source »

...rising in the past decade. "It has become a political weapon," he says. "There is nothing in Islam or the Koran about the burqa. It has become an instrument of intimidation, and is a sign of submission of women. And a civilized society cannot accept the imprisonment of women." (Read an argument against the veil by Azadeh Moaveni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belgium Moves Closer to Europe's First Burqa Ban | 4/3/2010 | See Source »

...Italian government has just started a debate on whether to ban them. The European pushback against Islam has gone even further in Switzerland, where the public last year approved a referendum making it illegal to build minarets on mosques, a move that outraged Muslims in the country. (Read a study on why European Muslims feel shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belgium Moves Closer to Europe's First Burqa Ban | 4/3/2010 | See Source »

...similar proposal working its way through France's legislative system could be unconstitutional. French politicians are still mulling their options. The leader of Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement party has said that while he respects the council's conclusions, the parliament is not bound by them. (Read an argument against the veil by Azadeh Moaveni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belgium Moves Closer to Europe's First Burqa Ban | 4/3/2010 | See Source »

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