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...other words, you would have to swim in the ocean 41,000 times a year (or 112 times a day, or seven times every waking hour) before swimming in shark habitats became as dangerous as driving your car a single time. As my colleague Amanda Ripley points out in her forthcoming book The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why, humans are kicking ass in the shark-human war: we kill at least 26 million of them every year, and they kill about...
...sharks, which is why it is so striking that director and British Film Institute ex-chairman Anthony Minghella was consistently praised by colleagues for his "sweetness." That quality, along with his gift for the edgy, sweeping story, helped Minghella make powerful, critically acclaimed films, including The Talented Mr. Ripley, which earned him an Oscar nomination for writing; Cold Mountain; and 1996's The English Patient, which won nine Academy Awards, among them Best Director for Minghella. The filmmaker, who had just finished shooting The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Botswana, died suddenly of a hemorrhage following surgery...
...thing for literary adaptation, and he also had a knack for it. He could translate the feel of a book onto the screen without making the viewer feel like they were reading a book. He showed off his skills yet again with 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel and the first of three films he made with Jude Law. "He was a brilliantly talented writer and director who wrote dialog that was a joy to speak and then put it onto the screen in a way that always looked effortless," Law said...
...ideas we explore are wide-ranging but affect all of us. John Cloud explains how the idea of authenticity--we know it when we see it (or at least we think we do)--is shaping not only our consumer culture but also the presidential campaign. Amanda Ripley explores how counter-terrorism experts are using former terrorists to prevent the radicalization of new ones. Bryan Walsh has a fascinating piece about the idea of geoengineering: how, instead of fixing or curing the earth, we might re-engineer it on a massive scale to solve climate change. Other pieces include Justin...
...Unthinkable, TIME staff writer Amanda Ripley's book on human behavior in disasters, is due out in June...