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...computers that control the movement of their satellites cannot be reached by public phone lines. By week's end the prosecutor's office was quietly backing away from its most startling assertion, but to most Americans, the satellite caper remained real, a dramatic reminder that for a bright youngster steeped in the secret arts of the computer age, anything is possible. Says Steven Levy, author of Hackers: "It's an immensely seductive myth, that a kid with a little computer can bring a powerful institution to its knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: The Great Satellite Caper | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

TALKIES MAY HAVE made them obsolete, but silent films went out in style, as this 1929 drama from German director E.A. Dupont proves. It's the All About Eve fable, with an exotic youngster (Anna May Wong) replacing an older star (Gilda Gray). Wong, the one Chinese-American movie star in Holly-wood's first half-century, exudes the toxic perfume of sexual danger and makes every woman around her (including Gray, the ostensible star) look frowsy. Like Wong, this terrific movie still has heat and a hard luster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 DVDS Worth Your Time | 2/13/2005 | See Source »

...next Democratic Party chair Sunday afternoon when the executive committee of state party chairs voted to endorse Donnie Fowler rather than Dean. Just last week the former Vermont governor had touted endorsements from some state party leaders. But it was Fowler - bespectacled, Southern, and, at 37, the youngster of the field - who prevailed in Sunday's vote. Fowler, a South Carolinian who lives in California and is the son of former Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler, headed Al Gore's field operation in the 2000 presidential election. Last year he ran the field operation in Michigan for John Kerry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fowler 1, Dean 0 | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

Several celebrities christened their newborns with distinctive monikers, from Gwyneth Paltrow's culinary cutie Apple to Helen Hunt's luau-ready Makena Lei to Julia Roberts' retro-inspired twins Phinnaeus and Hazel. What better way to preserve your kid's anonymity? And nothing helps a youngster get along at school like being named after a lunchtime staple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worst Ideas Of 2004 | 12/19/2004 | See Source »

...most breathtaking in the film. Subdued and roiling, subtle and yet bristling with emotion, Bacon delivers an astonishing portrayal of a man in constant battle with his own degenerate temptations. We sense Walter’s anguish as he follows young girls around a local mall and befriends a youngster, Robin (played by newcomer Hannah Pilkes) in a nearby park, always rooting for him to resist the darker side of himself...

Author: By Matthew S. Lebowitz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Movie Review - The Woodsman | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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