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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...Those figures may make shark attacks sound pretty unlikely, but remember, those are the chances of being attacked in any of the oceans of the world, rather than in my local, great white-infested bay. (See pictures of sharks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cape Town: Why We Swim with Sharks | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...climax it gets revived with jumper cables.) In Hollywood movies such behavior is unacceptable; it's children who get to abuse adults by sassing and sabotaging them. Farren, the 13-year-old (Madeline Carroll), who's navigating puberty with the ease of the Exxon Valdez sailing through Prince William Sound, uses a garden hose as a trip wire, sending Bob head first into a garbage can. Kids! Couldn't you just... find them tremendously annoying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Next Door: Jackie Chan, Babysitter | 1/16/2010 | See Source »

...cinema, offered this very qualified recommendation of Rohmer's films: "You have to see one of them, and if you kind of like that one, then you should see his other ones. But you need to see one to see if you like it." He makes Rohmer's movies sound less like caviar, more like artichokes. Gene Hackman, in his role as a detective in Arthur Penn's 1975 Night Moves, is even more dismissive. "I saw a Rohmer film once," he says. "It was kind of like watching paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Movie Master Eric Rohmer Dies at 89 | 1/12/2010 | See Source »

...Given the North's long-established record of following periods of belligerence with a willingness to talk, Pyongyang's current sound track has been greeted warily in Seoul and Washington. Intense wariness is now deeply ingrained in the diplomats now dealing with the regime. Several senior South Korean officials tell TIME that, at best, they are now, as one put it, "skeptically optimistic, if that makes any sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is North Korea Ready to Do (Another) Nuke Deal? | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

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