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...script element Fox had initially objected to was Cameron's failure to explain unobtainium, the precious resource that sends humans to Pandora to strip-mine the planet ruinously. Unobtainium is a joke term engineers have used for decades to describe any needed material that is rare, costly or difficult to obtain. For Cameron, the specificity of unobtainium is not important, and despite Fox's objections, he never explains in the movie what makes unobtainium worth the trouble of interstellar travel. But the answer to that mystery is that the substance's room-temperature superconducting properties make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avatar Arrives! Can James Cameron Be King Again? | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

...board, he makes less than he would at an equivalent job back home. But unemployment is rising in China, and Chen struggled for months to find alternative work back home. "It's not a good job, but what else can I do?" he asks, fanning himself with the strip of cardboard. "I have to eat and send money home." For Chen and the other workers - Chinese as well as Papua New Guinean - toiling deep in the bush, all they can ask for is survival. But the big Chinese firms, and the local governments they support - they expect nothing less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of China Inc. | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...come to an end brought an immense sense of relief to the citizens of the Seattle-Tacoma area. The nearly 48-hour manhunt for him had gripped Washington State since early Sunday morning, Nov. 29, when Clemmons reportedly walked into the Forza Coffee Co., a shop in a strip mall in the Tacoma suburb of Parkland, reached into his jacket, pulled out a gun and opened fire on four officers from the town of Lakewood who were working on their laptops. It ended on a dark street in south Seattle just before 3 a.m. on Tuesday, when Clemmons was gunned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cop-Killer Crisis Ends, but Tacoma's Anxiety Lingers | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...mute while male presenters talk. Some give on-air lap dances to chat-show guests, as did one earlier this year to Inter Milan coach José Mourinho. Others play the funny little games producers devise, posing as table legs, or braving cold showers in tight dresses. Some simply strip: Mediaset's homepage recently featured a clip of a blonde clad in a black garbage bag, slowly lowering it to reveal her breasts. Degrading? Undoubtedly. But there's no denying the status of the showgirl in Berlusconi's Italy. "We used to get 10 or 15 applications a week," notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Silvio Berlusconi Uses Women on TV | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...married to my roommate for one of our friends who said we were always together so we might as well be married,” said Paraszczak. “There’s always someone who requests a lap dance or a strip tease but they’re not specific so what they want always turns into five guys and they blindfold the one—that actually happened to me last year...

Author: By Kylie S. Gleason, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kirkland Secret Santa Week Rages Forth | 11/29/2009 | See Source »

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