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...Daley with his superior-quality museum-guard skills who must ultimately save the day. It's amazing what you can do in the planet-saving department if you just have a uniform, a pass and the right flashlight, apparently. One of the most eye-opening special effects of an effects-laden movie is how it makes minimum-wage employment appear to be a rewarding and glamorous career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Night at the Museum: More Monkey Business | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...learn counterintuitive skills, and then work and commute 50 hours a week for 40 years in tedious jobs for amoral corporations, far away from relatives and friends, without any decent child care, sense of community, political empowerment or contact with nature. Oh, and you'll have to take special medicines to avoid suicidal despair, and to avoid having more than two children. It's not so bad, really. The shoe swooshes are pretty cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex Sells. Here's Why We Buy | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...press releases were followed by an international press conference at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, the publication of a book, The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Little, Brown), an ABC News exclusive and on May 25 a prime-time television special on the History Channel. Of the avalanche of media-related promotion, Jorn Hurum, a Norwegian paleontologist involved in Ida's discovery, told the New York Times, "Any pop band is doing the same thing." (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ida: Humankind's Earliest Ancestor! (Not Really) | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...normal that Alicia Keyes came for dinner. [Laughter.] Because they were there that night, right? Yes. Yes. It becomes "normal." But they're not going down to dinner all the time, meeting people, either. That becomes as much of a special occasion for them as it is for any other girl, because they're not ... if they had something to do, they might have missed that event. So we really keep it very separate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with the First Lady | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...first instance of the flu being transmitted among the domestic population, the virus has hopscotched through the western prefectures of Osaka and Hyogo, where more than 4,400 schools and some businesses have been temporarily closed. Initially, efforts to contain the disease - which included the establishment of a special committee chaired by Prime Minister Taro Aso - appeared to be successful. But now that the virus has reached the greater Tokyo area, home to 35 million, concerns are growing over the speed of transmission. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Japan, Swine Flu Spreading Quickly | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

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