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...Drama school was a new world, but not what he expected. "I thought somebody, somehow, would give me the secret to acting," he recalls. Indian theater then had nothing like the studios of method-acting guru Lee Strasberg or Stanislavski disciple Stella Adler to give actors tools and techniques. It had its roots in drawing-room melodramas and classical literature, including an ancient text, the Natyashastra, devoted to the theory of drama. "It even tells you where in the audience a critic should sit," Khan says. "But you cannot learn acting from that." So he immersed himself in the films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping It Real | 2/15/2010 | See Source »

...parable of Toyota is that the tortoise became the hare. Over decades, Toyota built its reputation and market share in tiny increments by way of its renowned continuous-improvement method. In the Toyota mantra, quality was always first because it led to lower costs, which would lead to higher market share. Eventually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: Toyota's Recall | 2/15/2010 | See Source »

With Valentine's Day coming up tomorrow, most Harvardians are feeling the pressure to celebrate in some special way. Some are taking every opportunity to secure a valentine this year—including the now banal method of speed dating...

Author: By Agnes K. Sibilski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Race to Find a Valentine | 2/13/2010 | See Source »

...cases of depression during pregnancy are going undiagnosed or untreated. This is partly because American women tend to prefer a watch-and-wait approach to illness during pregnancy, says Dr. Shari Lusskin, director of reproductive psychiatry at the New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center. Women's "hands-off method" - which may stem from an unwillingness to undergo treatment that could harm the fetus - combined with a general societal stigma that is still associated with depression, makes for a "'Don't ask, don't tell' sort of environment when it comes to depression during pregnancy," says Lusskin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postpartum Depression: Signaled During Pregnancy? | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

Admitting there's a problem with her Prius would imply there's something imperfect about her entire Whole Foods lifestyle. The Prius has made her feel so superior that, when I drive it, she tells me I'm driving it wrong. My primitive method of accelerating to speed up and braking to slow down does not maximize miles per gallon, as she can show me on an annoying bar graph on that center screen. Prius owners work very hard to get as many miles per gallon as they can to win a game they like to call Getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein: My Prius Problem | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

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