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...have described yourself as stubborn. Does your husband find it exasperating to argue with you? My husband and I rarely argue. I want to tell you something interesting: I believe so strongly in equality that I have even filled my family life with it. My husband and I have two daughters. The elder looks like her mother but has chosen her father's profession--she is an engineer. My younger daughter looks like her father, but her character is like mine. For this reason she is becoming a lawyer. So you can see we have divided our world equally. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions For Shirin Ebadi | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

That presents a problem of what engineers call interface design: How do you make it easier for players to tell the machine what they want it to do? "During the past five years, we were always telling them we have to do something new, something very different," Miyamoto says (like Iwata, he speaks through an interpreter). "And the game interface has to be the key. Without changing the interface we could not attract nongamers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Game For All Ages | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

...Three months after I joined a shooting club, I've learned not to jump when the gun does. But I'm still being surprised, and not just by the bang or the occasional bullseye. When I tell friends about my new interest (O.K., obsession), the conversation chills. It's as if I've taken up voodoo: they'll still talk to me, just not about It. "I just don't like guns," says one. "Don't like the idea of them." In the days when the only unholstered guns I'd seen were in the movies, I might have said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trigger Happiness | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

Surely, Mr. Clean could tell me more. I logged on to Procter & Gamble's website, where I found tips about how to use the products but still no list of ingredients. It turns out that companies aren't required to tell us what makes their products work; there is no government agency that regulates what's in soap-scum spray and other useful items. Digging deep into the site, I did find Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSes) for many P&G products, which are posted by law in factories where they're made, listing information about a cleaner's chemical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haz-Mats At Home? | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...TIME Tell me about the consumer media center PC platform, AMD Live!, out later this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEO SPEAKS: Chipping Away | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

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