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There are no kids in Hollywood, only a kid market. So the moguls gleefully rub their rough hands at the recent blooming of animated features into a reliable blockbuster genre. Anyone could have predicted that Pixar's Up, Blue Sky's Ice Age 3 and DreamWorks' Monsters vs Aliens would be among the year's top-grossing pictures, but who saw Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs coming? The success of Meatballs, G-Force and Where the Wild Things Are underlines the movie industry's hope that in every jaded teen or wizened adult there's an inner child whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astro Boy: Sweet Sci-Fi for Your Inner Child | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...Other recent genetic research has backed up that notion. One study, published in PNAS in 2007 and led by John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, found that some 1,800 human gene variations had become widespread in recent generations because of their modern-day evolutionary benefits. Among those genetic changes, discovered by examining more than 3 million DNA variants in 269 individuals: mutations that allow people to digest milk or resist malaria and others that govern brain development. (Watch TIME's video "Darwin and Lincoln: Birthdays and Evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darwin Lives! Modern Humans Are Still Evolving | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...lands among fawning crowds or the occasional confused shepherd. She pursues her ambition to be a “vagabond of the air” without fear, barreling through the obstacles of poverty, peril, and gender bias. Nair ignores not only the connotations that air travel has acquired in recent years but also the incredulity that Earhart’s consuming ambition will inspire in viewers given last year’s financial collapse. We no longer live in Earhart’s era of optimism, passion, and, yes, recklessness. But even with its predetermined ending, “Amelia?...

Author: By Abigail B. Lind, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Amelia | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Shore said that debt has allowed Harvard to expand its campus in “programmatically critical” ways in the past, and that Harvard must now “carefully” manage and service that debt. According to the University’s recent financial report, Harvard’s principal payments on debt are expected to increase sharply over the next few years...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University May Assume More Debt | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Like most of the investment community, Harvard’s vaunted economists were hit hard by the recent financial crisis and ensuing downturn...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Economics Professors Push Safe Investing Strategies | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

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