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...other lived to cook. Both are based on real people. One, Julie Powell (Amy Adams), had a bright idea, while the other, Julia Child (Meryl Streep), had a calling. Julie is a bit of a pill, while Julia, as played by Streep, is irresistible, the personification of movie magic. (Read TIME's 1981 cover story on Meryl Streep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Julie & Julia: Streep, Ephron and the Joy of Cooking | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...nothing about his IQ, or any evident evil, portended the breadth of his later crime. On the surface, Madoff's legitimate trading business gleamed. But in the off-limits-to-his-staff, low-tech office on the secluded 17th floor of Manhattan's Lipstick Building, Madoff worked darker magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bernie Madoff — Publisher's Best Friend? | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...that by putting starter bacteria in your milk. There are hundreds of different bacteria that work at different speeds to produce different cheeses. You could have 500 or 1,000 variations on just that one step. There's something very exciting and mysterious about it that's almost like magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cheese Expert | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...Sherin says. "We are really going to be relying on volunteers to help us." In addition to turning to private-sector doctors and nurses to aid the effort, Sherin is looking into renting empty storefronts, reopening vacant schools and even using the downtown Amway Arena, home to the Orlando Magic professional basketball team, for mass-vaccination campaigns. "It could be a little bit of pandemic pandemonium in the beginning," he says. (See the 5 things you need to know about swine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Fight Against a Flu Pandemic | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

Psihoyos refers to the team he recruits, which includes a moldmaker from Industrial Light & Magic and a pair of champion deep-sea free divers, as being like Ocean's Eleven. He's kidding. Sort of. The goal is a lot worthier than emptying the vault at a Las Vegas casino, but in terms of style, that's what The Cove is emulating. Characters are introduced with a flourish--the daredevil, the soulful surfer, the bumbling cops--and Psihoyos takes the George Clooney role. (He's got the tan and the big white teeth.) There's time-lapse photography, footage shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rescue at Sea | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

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