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Siskel and Ebert play a large role in the book, and I see that Roger Ebert has endorsed it enthusiastically. I think anybody who grows up a cinephile is going to be touched by Robert Ebert. I remember watching Siskel and Ebert as a kid in Chicago and going, "Oh my God, they've cracked the code. This has to be the single greatest existence in the world." In the first couple years I worked at the A.V. Club, I'd tell people that I was a critic. My family members would say, "Your cousin Lloyd wanted...
Getting to Know God Robert Wright's article, "Decoding God's Changing Moods," on historical interactions among monotheistic religions is interesting [June 15]. But when he refers to "the most dangerous of intra-Abrahamic fault lines, the one between Muslims and Jews," he is wrong. The attacks in New York, London, Bali, Madrid and Mumbai were planned and perpetrated by Muslim fanatics, but they were not directed against Jews. True, Islamic fundamentalism would like to convert the Middle East conflict from a territorial dispute into a religious war. But ultimately its problem is not with Judaism; it is with...
...leader by whether he's the kind of bloke with whom you'd want to have a beer, Rudd comes across as more buttoned-up than many of his predecessors. Talking to TIME, he dropped in a casual reference to Burke (that would be Edmund, the conservative philosopher, not Robert, the doomed Australian explorer). His Twitter feeds - a sample from April 14: "Working hard in sunny Canberra today" - have been mocked as terminally boring...
...rows. These crops give the farmer an income for the five to seven years until the rubber trees start producing latex. The rubber farmers have to do or pay nothing. BRE even trains and employs up to 1,000 people in the process. "They couldn't believe it," says Robert Baines, 32, manager of BRE's fuels division, which imported $50 million of equipment...
While funding is flowing quickly to new studies similar to McLaughlin and Allaire's - the nonprofit Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, for example, has pledged $8.5 million to study the impact of video games on everything from Alzheimer's disease to driving skills - there is little existing evidence that gaming, which is widely dismissed as an elaborate form of mind rot, really holds any potential to slow the effects of aging. "I think it is silly for someone to run out and buy a game with the hope that it is going to help them age better. There is no proof...