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...spectacular oddness of the creatures, leave you - and, perhaps more crucially, your children - wanting more. Awww moments, the tentpoles of so many nature documentaries, are mostly reserved for the sea lions, who apparently enjoy looking at themselves in the camera's reflective lens. Carrey is by turns serious and goofy, which mostly works. At one point, a crab nonchalantly carries away a jellyfish on its back. The jokes write themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under the Sea: Fish Tales in 3-D | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

This poetry is serious. The love that you describe here is sober; these are serious reflections on mortality. There's an awful lot of that. I think you reach a certain age and friends begin dying around you, and it's impossible not to contemplate that. I think that's a stage of life where you have to make your peace with the fact that some of the people who have been the most important to you are going or are gone. Sometimes you look through your database and you think, half the people in here are dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love, Erica Jong Style | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...funny a show as some of your others. It's darker and more serious. Would you agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Joss Whedon, creator of Dollhouse | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

Secondhand smoke, once considered a mere nuisance, has proved to be far more harmful. It can lead to lung cancer and heart disease, exacerbate asthma and cause pneumonia and bronchitis in babies. Now, a new study links it to another serious condition: dementia in adults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: Secondhand Smoke Tied to Dementia | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...with are incredibly challenging, but the answers usually involve reliance on some combination of hard work, determination, and creative thinking, qualities that Harvard seniors have been refining through four years of long days and late nights spent producing papers and leading student organizations. Educational inequity is a deep and serious problem, and in the long term the systems that educate American children are going to need a lot of help. But, right now, these children need us, as many of us as they can get, to do what we can: to dive in and get working...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly | Title: Those Who Can, Do Teach | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

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