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...awards ceremony today as an indication that this function has largely been forgotten—or at least hidden beneath a superficial veneer. Though I was rooting for the strike to be resolved in time for the show to go on, I couldn’t help but wonder if perhaps the Academy would call a time-out on the more ostentatious aspects of Hollywood’s biggest celebration of itself. When Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova performed—and later won the Oscar for—their tune “Falling Slowly” from...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins | Title: For Your Consideration | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

...churn" is the relatively tiny Jehovah's Witnesses, with a turnover rate of about two-thirds. That means that two-thirds of the people who told Pew they were raised Jehovah's Witnesses no longer are - yet the group attracts roughly the same number of converts. Notes Lugo, "No wonder they have to keep on knocking on doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Unfaithful Faithful | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

Indeed, skeptics openly wonder just who is playing whom this week. Except for closing the reactor at Yongbyon - a significant step, to be sure - Kim Jong Il has not fulfilled any other aspect of the deal he signed last year. It required him, by the end of 2007, to disclose all the details about his entire nuclear program - including what the U.S. believes was a surreptitious effort to develop the bomb by enriching uranium, a program Washington believes the North Koreans ran in addition to the plutonium reactor in Yongbyon. President's Bush's former U.N. ambassador, John Bolton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gershwin Offensive in North Korea | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

...over the past 20 years, has compiled a library of something like 10,000 movies on that ancient format - and feels like some geezer still hanging on to his 78s far into the CD era - I feel the devotion of Mike and Jerry to VHS, even as I wonder whether these tapes will disintegrate before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nostalgia Hits the Tracks in Be Kind Rewind | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...they need real help. An overemphasis on mild forms of depression and anxiety ties up resources that should be used for major mental illnesses. Some people feel blue, and some people are suicidal. When medicine starts to forget the distinction between the two, everyone loses. Healthy people begin to wonder if they truly are healthy, while the genuinely ill are trivialized...

Author: By Steven T. Cupps | Title: The Mad, Mad World | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

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