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...This kind of quality control has helped to keep Garnaut in business for two decades in an industry notorious for failure. So has the combination of homely Australian cum Mediterranean cuisine (her salt-baked lamb is a comfort-food classic), served in highly original settings. The latter constitute a distinctive selling point in a country where smart restaurants are more likely to be found in the contrived spaces of soaring hotels or office-block podiums. "When I first arrived in Asia," she explains, "I was in Hong Kong and got into a lift to go up to a restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The M in Stamina | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...system under the eye of a "standards authority." A self-described policy wonk, Bissell is clearly more interested in the details of governance than in big ideas (the subject of several recent books by Indian CEOs). "Let's go into the trenches," he says, with the air of the classic patrician philanthropist, "and see what needs to be done." (See pictures of India's health care crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Social Fabric | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

Like millions of Americans, Olympic skiing gold medalist Lindsey Vonn, who delivered a classic Winter Games moment with her scintillating downhill run on Wednesday, is insanely curious about one thing on Friday morning: the Tiger Woods press conference. But by the time she walks into a room at the USA House in Whistler for an interview, Woods' nationally televised statement - they get NBC's Seattle affiliate up in the Canadian mountains - has ended. "I really want to see that now," says Vonn, loose and cheery despite wiping out the day before during the super combined event, denying her a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lindsey Vonn Makes Fun of Tiger Woods Too! | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

...intelligence, Bigelow is both a receptive and commanding presence - the perfect combination for a person who makes thoughtful movies about tough guys, and things blowing up. She's known for her adrenaline-pumped action sequences in films like the vampire western Near Dark (1987) and the surfer-heist cult classic Point Break (1991); the subtitle of the Directors' Cuts volume of film criticism about her is "Hollywood Transgressor." With The Hurt Locker, she's transgressed her way right to the threshold of the industry's highest honor. Breaking the Oscars' glass ceiling after a career of original, uncompromising films would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kathryn Bigelow: The Front Runner | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

Liberal tendencies notwithstanding, I can’t help but admire the defiance of this opposition and its belief that it’s the principle of standing on one’s own two feet that matters most. In the 1962 British New Wave (and Angry Young Men) classic “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,” based on the book by Alan Sillitoe, Colin Smith is a boy at reformatory whom the director’s primped to win a cross-country race against a nearby prep school. Coming down the last stretch...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: Angry Men | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

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