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...think film and television producers can realistically portray scientists considering they have to sometimes use stereotypes or exaggeration to get people to watch what they produce? I don't think that we can demand incredibly high levels of fidelity to what scientists actually do. What I think we can shoot for is positive role-model figures who are scientists. What really leaves audiences with a positive outlook on the scientific world is if the smart character is actually heroic for being smart. In The Day the Earth Stood Still, Jennifer Connelly is a scientist. It definitely cuts against stereotypes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Make Science Sexier | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...Mongolian capital Ulan Bator, "Shoot the Chinese" is spray-painted on a brick wall near a movie theater. A pair of swastikas and the words "Killer Boys ...! Danger!" can be read on a fence in an outlying neighborhood of yurt dwellings. Graffiti like this, which can be found all over the city, is the work of Mongolia's neo-Nazis, an admittedly implausible but often intimidating, and occasionally violent, movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Neo-Nazis of Mongolia: Swastikas Against China | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

Quick, versatile, and equipped with a high basketball IQ, Brown has combined his ability to distribute and shoot the ball as a combo guard with a knack for guarding defenders closely on the defensive end of the court...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prep Star Brown to Play for Amaker's Crimson in 2010 | 7/26/2009 | See Source »

...That left F-22 backers having to exaggerate threats: Army Major General Raymond Rees, adjutant general of the Oregon National Guard, told the Air Force Association, an independent group, that the F-22 is needed because only it can shoot down enemy cruise missiles fired at U.S. cities. "The more research we have done," he told the pro-Air Force outfit, "the more convinced we are that it is absolutely imperative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense Secretary Gates Downs the F-22 | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

...threat of such an attack carries echoes of the past for those who have been in the Pentagon for a while. In the mid-1980s, the Air Force launched the short-lived Air Defense Initiative, designed to shoot down Soviet cruise missiles launched toward the U.S. "It's an embryonic program that addresses threats that will exist by the late 1990s," a top Air Force planner said in 1986. Five years later, of course, the Soviet Union collapsed. But that threat - while it has yet to materialize - still lives on in the toolbox of those pressing Congress to spend real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense Secretary Gates Downs the F-22 | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

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