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...finding ways to generate income and create green solutions for the grasslands and, perhaps, for the rest of China - a country that needs clean energy more than any other. A team at the Inner Mongolia Agricultural University is working in parts of the province near the Gobi Desert, planting sweet sorghum, a kind of grass that can be harvested by locals and sold for biofuel production. The plan dovetails with Beijing's ambitious goal of generating 2 million tons of bio-ethanol a year by 2010, and 15% of its energy from renewable resources by 2020. (Seventy percent of mainland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Life Back to Inner Mongolia | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...same thing that transformed Starbucks and Cold Stone Creamery from local favorites into global brands--a knack for taking an ordinary but well-liked food and tarting it up into a premium product. Dale and Thomas sells more than 100 popcorn flavors, from Chocolate Chunk N' Caramel to Sweet Georgia Pecan, and each bowl can by customized with "pop-ins"--sweets like fudge or jelly beans that customers can add to their popcorn. A regular- size bag with the works costs about $6. "Popcorn is a commodity," Struhl says. "We made it into an experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Business: Pass The Popcorn | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

Everyone is slightly touched--moved and deranged--by the force of love in this sweet, knowing film from director Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer). Morgan Freeman presides as a kind of benign deity observing these moonstruck creatures, especially a coffee-shop owner (Greg Kinnear) with a soft heart and rotten luck with beautiful women. Sexy, funny, sad and defiantly romantic, Feast of Love is the rare movie to cuddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downtime: 5 Things to Check Out | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...unfounded. The French understand hooks and love songs that only 12-year-old girls can admit to liking in America, which made Paris completely liberating. I sang “Gangsta’s Paradise” with no irony; I discussed the merits of “The Sweet Escape” in French; I kind of liked a Mika song for about two minutes.I was reunited with television for my last week in Paris, and I spent a lot of time watching MTV France—which, shockingly, actually played videos. Paris had destroyed my pretensions...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: France Can't Escape America | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...tightwire flow over a beautiful Motown sample, and you remember that Outkast is very, very good. Then the drums kick in and the track turns into boilerplate, albeit well-executed, Southern rap, and you remember that this isn’t actually an Outkast song. The cognitive dissonance between sweet music and rough lyrics in the last three quarters is mildly disturbing, but start the song over and everything’s alright again. Grade: B Kanye West – “Stronger” Even though the song it samples is only three years old; even though...

Author: By Eric L. Fritz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer Songs To 'Superman' To | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

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