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Eventually Byrne Fields grew up and John Hughes stopped making movies about high school. And then in 1994, he stopped making movies altogether. He bought a farm in Illinois and more or less quit Hollywood. Except for one surprise telephone call in 1997, the two pen pals never corresponded again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Hughes' High School Pen Pal | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

So it should come as no surprise that Yang's latest work, co-authored by Korean-American comic artist Derek Kirk Kim, revisits those dark places where feelings of self-doubt and shame linger. But rather than centering on ethnic identity this time, The Eternal Smile's trilogy straddles the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality Check | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

Kakani Katija, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, believes it's possible, based on her recent experiments with jellyfish blooms in a freshwater lake in Palau. Using high-powered underwater lasers and video cameras, Katija and her team studied how the movement of jellyfish impacts the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churning Ocean Waters, One Jellyfish at a Time | 8/5/2009 | See Source »

It's no surprise that the industry's 800 lb. gorilla is French. Back in the 1970s, when most Western nations reacted to the end of the first oil crisis by forgetting it ever happened, France decided to kick its petroleum habit by pouring money into its young nuclear industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Areva's Field of Dreams | 8/5/2009 | See Source »

Jimmy Carter went for flavor, not volume, on his 53rd birthday in 1977: his single cake was pistachio, reportedly his favorite. Ronald Reagan's 1981 surprise party, by contrast, featured veal, lobster, dancing - and a dozen cakes. Two years later, at the end of a televised press conference, his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presidential Birthdays | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

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