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...check and keeps us from accessing it too much, but it doesn’t keep us from having the emotional response. Only obscenity has the ability to engage that subtle strong emotion.6.FM: You have one of the most recognizable faces in science. Does that make you an academic rock star? If not, what would?SP: Well, journalists love to use that as a way of kind of saying “who the hell is he” in the first paragraph in an article. I just came from England where there were five different articles about...

Author: By Ana P. Gantman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions With Steven Pinker | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...While Democrats tussled on Tuesday night about whether Sen. Hillary Clinton was forthcoming about the fate of 20 million documents in Little Rock's Clinton Library, Giuliani could face his own questions about the handling of archival material. On Sunday, The Chicago Tribune reported that associates of the former mayor arranged to have 2,100 boxes of documents from his tenure at City Hall copied and archived before they were returned to the city. The unusual chain of custody - since outlawed by New York City - raises questions about whether documents were deleted or sanitized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Rudy the Real Debate Winner? | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...Boston Three Party On the surprise scale, the Celtics landing Ray Allen to join Paul Pierce was Kid Rock getting into a brawl at a Waffle House. But the Celtics landing Kevin Garnett was Paris Hilton joining a convent. Suddenly the C's have the strongest Eastern Conference lineup, which may be a bit like being the tallest Munchkin, but it's still amazing for a sports town that seemed cursed for so long. Still, on the surprise scale these individual moves are dwarfed by the possibility of the Celts, Red Sox and Patriots celebrating championships at the Romney White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The NBA — Never Bet Against It! | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

...ubiquitous as the plodding police horses. Mountain Dew set up an "Amp Lounge," where samples of its energy drink were passed out freely. City officials handed over much of the planning to Frank Productions, a large Midwest concert promoter that brought in, as the main act, the alt-rock band Lifehouse - whose music isn't exactly conducive to rioting. While passing out beaded necklaces in the lounge Saturday, Gary Wyspiszynski, a key account manager for Mountain Dew, says "It was either going to go this way or it was going to be forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Madison Exorcised Halloween | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

...make myself unattractive," he whispers to Marie, "so as not to encourage inappropriate feelings" - but by then he's already become way less adorable. When he's at the edge of a lake with some of the kids, they're skipping stones across the water; Dan throws a rock with the fury of a Spartan at Thermopylae. Emily Blunt, a beguiler in My Summer of Love and The Devil Wears Prada, brightens up a scene in a bar. And when Act 3 finally rolls around, Dan and Marie have a pretty tryst at a bowling alley, and the movie locates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steve Carell in Reel Life | 10/28/2007 | See Source »

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