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...many fans, the director's most crucial task is bringing Voldemort to life. Warner Bros. is keeping mum on the details of the Dark Lord's look, but Newell lets drop a few clues: he has a snake's nose, horrible skin and no hair. "The image we have," he says, "is of a 2-hour-old chick which somebody dropped into a pan of boiling water and whipped out." Seems like the franchise is in safe hands. --By Jumana Farouky/London

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From The Set: A Sneak Peek at the Next Film | 7/17/2005 | See Source »

What about even bigger, more significant dams? Well, no one has seriously suggested demolishing the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia, but a coalition of environmental groups has taken aim at four dams on the lower Snake River--and stirred up a storm of controversy. The damage those dams have done is clear. Since they were built in eastern Washington State from 1955 to 1975, the salmon population in the Snake has gone into free fall. But the benefits the dams provide are also clear: inexpensive barge transport for wheat farmers, irrigation water for fruit growers and a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Worth a Dam? | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

Even when the monorail does begin to snake its way through twelve stations in downtown Detroit, critics say, the system's dozen cars, each with a capacity of 100 passengers, will never carry enough riders to justify the expense. Official estimates for the number of daily riders (at 40¢ to 50¢ a trip) have dropped from 70,000 to 40,000, while Stanley, who heads the Urban Mass Transit Administration in Washington, foresees no more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horizontal Elevator to Nowhere | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Like members of a family, the four basic forces of nature are all distinct personalities, with their separate quirks, abilities and housekeeping chores. Electromagnetism makes it possible for elevators to rise, light bulbs to glow and lightning to snake across the sky. Gravity holds chairs to the floor and planets in their orbital paths. The strong force binds together the protons and neutrons in an atomic nucleus. The weak force causes subatomic particles to shoot out of the nuclei of atoms during the radioactive decay of such unstable elements as uranium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hanging the Universe on Strings | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...line. A chili cook-off is planned along the route in Texas. Members of the feuding Navajo and Hopi Indian tribes have got together to endorse the event. Along a ten-mile stretch in New Mexico, thousands of hot-air balloons will ascend simultaneously. The chain will snake through the Pittsburgh Pirates' Three Rivers Stadium, where Pete Rose's Cincinnati Reds will be playing, so that fans and players can join hand to glove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joining Hands To forge a 4,152-mile chain | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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