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...this time, and includes movies not just from Japan and China but also Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Tamil state of India. Few of these titles are likely to get a U.S. release, which is a shame, but there's always the Internet. Be a cinema sleuth and track down some of these titles; you'll say Wow, too. (See the All TIME 100 Best Movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asian Film Fireworks for the Fourth | 7/4/2009 | See Source »

Lenny Kravitz, Singer-songwriter "Lookin Through the Windows" This song is complex, the chord changes are beautiful, the range in which Michael sings on that track is phenomenal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Favorite Songs | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

...they earn in a year (use this calculator to figure out if you qualify). It's all based on a debt-to-income ratio and is fluid and flexible in a way that most government systems are not. And if the Education Department is serious about abolishing the two-track loan system (in which it provides direct loans as well as subsidizes private-lender loans), this is just one more way of convincing borrowers to throw their hat in with the feds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New College-Loan Plan: Pay Back By What You Earn | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

...determine the cause of the accident - in which the jet went down six minutes after takeoff, killing all 43 people onboard - because there wasn't any useful information preserved in the crash. Over the next few years, he developed a prototype for a flight-memory recorder that would track basic information like altitude and direction. Encased in asbestos and metal, the data and sound recorder was nicknamed the "black box," after the general term for a seemingly magical gadget that no one knows how to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Boxes | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

These days, airplanes actually have two black boxes, the voice recorder and the flight data recorder. They can withstand temperatures up to 2,000°F and impact forces up to 100 Gs. (A G is equal to the force of the earth's gravity.) They track pilots' conversations, engine noises, air-traffic-control commands, fuel levels, landing-gear extension and retraction and dozens of other clicks and pops that might offer insights about a plane's final moments. The boxes are made out of quarter-inch-thick panels of stainless steel. And in case you're wondering, an entire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Boxes | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

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