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...punk ass”, “homie”, and “wassup” freely on stage. He name-checks Redman and Old Dirty Bastard. He wears his cap backwards and spits rhymes with fierce energy and unbridled theatrics. Naturally, Loker Professor of English W. James Simpson thinks he’s awesome. Simpson admits that he’s not much of a hip-hop enthusiast, but Brinkman’s brand of rap—literary hip-hop, or lit-hop—is relevant to the medievalist; Brinkman translates “The Canterbury...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chaucer is for Ballers, Right? | 10/18/2006 | See Source »

...only risk-free American television show in the marketplace is The Simpsons, creator Matt Groening's animated series, which airs in about 100 countries, including Arab countries where an edited Omar Shamshoon (Homer Simpson) doesn't drink or go to Moe's Tavern. Arab Homer doesn't eat pork either, but he is, like a lot of American programs this year, bringing home the bacon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media: The American Way | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...regulators in Europe and the U.S. earlier this year, and GlaxoSmith-Kline's Rotarix, approved in Europe in February. Like other vaccines, they work by provoking the development of antibodies that protect against future infection. Both are given orally. Clinical trials of both drugs have been encouraging. Evan Simpson, a public-health specialist at the Seattle-based Rotavirus Vaccine Program, says the new vaccines have the potential to reduce deaths from rotavirus-related diarrhea to 200,000 a year. As with oral rehydration treatment and zinc supplements, though, distribution remains a hurdle. "The rotavirus vaccine is a potential silver bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Simple Solution | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...been linked to Jessica Simpson and Lindsay Lohan, though the publicists always say you're "just good friends." Any truth to the rumors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange Behavior of Johnny Knoxville | 9/29/2006 | See Source »

...BART SIMPSON O.K., so he may be just devilish, not quite the devil himself. But we bet Bart's long-suffering sister Lisa wouldn't really differentiate. She once called her mischievous big brother "the devil's cabana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Call It An Axis of Devil | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

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