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Like so many actors bred in Australia, she has the gift of slipping into any character, any accent, and looking, sounding comfortable in it. She can play smart people in stupid situations, like the reporter walking into endless psychic booby traps in the hit thriller The Ring. This can't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Performances | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

What is it about unmanned speed cameras that infuriates some fast-driving Europeans? Willem Laurens, an unemployed bodyguard, is accused of leading a gang that has torched 26 cameras in Flanders. "People don't like the Big Brother mentality," explains senator Jean-Marie Dedecker, a Flemish conservative. And not just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driven To Destruction | 12/7/2003 | See Source »

What it does is simple. A few years ago, Kamen was working on an electric generator for use in underdeveloped villages when he noticed that it produced about 1,000 watts of waste heat. Kamen decided to try to use that heat to make clean water. There are 6,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions: Water Purifier | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

If you think you are capable of living without writing," said the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, "do not write." He didn't live to meet Diane Arbus, but if he had seen her photographs he would have understood her right away. Those portraits of sideshow performers and weeping children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Diane Arbus: Visionary Voyeurism | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

You don't have to sacrifice flavor. You don't have to go hungry. "It doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing thing," says Dr. Donald Hensrud of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "That attitude can actually make it harder." You do need to put in some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: How to Eat Smarter | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

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