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...opportunity presents itself. 14. FM: There’s a striking anomaly here, though. Why don’t we have 3D porn?BGE: Not every new technology will be a winner. And to be sure, the adult entertainment business adopts plenty of technologies that don’t turn out to gain widespread appeal. So on 3D, with the polarized glasses, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of that actually does take off in due course. To date, the technologies have always seemed a little bit goofy to me. You have to wear some strange...

Author: By Luis Urbina, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions with Benjamin G. Edelman '02 | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

That did not turn out to be a good idea. Says Sissel, referring to Barnad by his current name: "If you give young kids in the slums money, then they do not see it. The mother took whatever I sent to Bernard. Toys were sold. Books were sold. Cash was taken. They lived in such desperation that she did what she had to do to survive. His mother's boyfriend was burning him with cigarettes. A rat bit him in his sleep, and he became infected. Horror stories that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Happen to Slumdog's Child Stars? | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

Slumdog director Boyle and the film's producer, Christian Colson, have said that resources will be made available to pay for Rubiana's and Azhar's education until they turn 18. A "substantial lump sum" as well as housing will also be given to the children when they complete their studies. The producers have also arranged for a rickshaw to take the children to a nonprofit English-language school, Asheema, for the next eight years, just to make sure they attend. Already there are signs of new affluence in the kids' slum dwellings. Rubiana's house was reportedly fitted with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Happen to Slumdog's Child Stars? | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...lack of proper legal limits on the new fusion centers not only threatens to undermine fundamental American values, but also threatens to turn them into wasteful and misdirected bureaucracies that, like our federal security agencies before 9/11, won't succeed in their ultimate mission of stopping terrorism and other crime," the national ACLU notes in its report on the centers. There are federal and state privacy laws governing the centers, but a recent report by the Department of Homeland Security's own Privacy Office suggested that the multi-governmental nature of the centers allows the staffers to pick and choose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fusion Centers: Giving Cops Too Much Information? | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...Just 48 hours after Hassanzade's triumph in the final, French government officials announced that they would grant the young fighter legal residence papers. Those, in turn, will allow him to apply for naturalization on his 18th birthday so he can represent France on the international stage in the most French of all combat sports: savate, also known as la boxe française. (See pictures of boxing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghan Boxer Wins French Citizenship | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

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