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...obsession and the chance to rise from the bottom of the slag heap to the top of the Taj Mahal--and because it whirls through its rags-to-riches tale with a speed and energy that would put a Hollywood action film to shame. For these qualities, you can thank Simon Beaufoy, who wrote the script from Vikas Swarup's novel Q&A, and director Danny Boyle. Eleven years ago, Beaufoy was Oscar-nominated for another screenplay about underdogs going public, The Full Monty. Boyle has often dealt with the plight of the working-class young, notably in Trainspotting...
...Crisis (illustrated with missile-shaped dots and arrows) is pretty cool because, well, it involves missiles. Apparently, the U.S. military developed a decentralized computer network so there wouldn't be a main hub for Russians to take down with a bomb. I never knew that before; now I can thank communism for creating the Internet...
...envelope Neely split open had “Alan” scrawled on the flap and contained a blank thank-you note, Neely said...
...Seeing the Fluorescent Light Thank you, TIME, for giving us solid reasons to be hopeful on the crucial energy issue [Jan. 12]. With incentives for energy efficiency, the economy would hum with millions of local projects requiring little or no government planning. Moreover, by choosing a relatively low-tech policy that the world could readily copy, we would at last become leaders in climate protection - and in rejecting the needless and dangerous expansion of nuclear power. Egan O'Connor, San Francisco...
...Seeing the Fluorescent Light Thank you, TIME, for giving us solid reasons to be hopeful on the crucial energy issue [Jan. 12]. With incentives for energy efficiency, the economy would hum with millions of local projects requiring little or no government planning. Moreover, by choosing a relatively low-tech policy that the world could readily copy, we would at last become leaders in climate protection - and in rejecting the needless and dangerous expansion of nuclear power. Egan O'Connor, San Francisco...