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...biofuels like ethanol is that they will someday help the world grow its way out of its addiction to oil. Nine billion gallons of corn ethanol were produced in the U.S. in 2008, while countries like Brazil have already widely replaced gasoline with ethanol from sugar cane and countless start-ups are working to bring cellulosic and other second-generation biofuels to market. The reasoning is that if we use greener biofuels in place of gasoline, it will significantly enhance our effort to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tallying Biofuels' Real Environmental Cost | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...Hempel is widely regarded as the queen of the American short story. She has published several collections and has received countless awards for her fiction. As she prepares for her latest honor—the PEN/Malamud Award for the Short Story—FM caught up with Harvard’s newest Briggs-Copeland lecturer to talk about craft, the weather, and Wanita, her yellow...

Author: By Jyotika Banga, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Amy Hempel | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...only think of the countless imprisoned Muslims in the jails of tyrants around the globe and hope that if it is not Allah's Decree to free them in the near future, that they taste the sweetness that Allah has placed them in prison to taste." - Letter allegedly written from prison and published on MuslimMatters.org after his 2008 arrest (Associated Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alleged U.S. Terrorist Tarek Mehanna | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...playwright John Ford's works, scholars may yet be able to settle many of the literature world's greatest authorship questions. But don't try this at home - this isn't something just anyone can do. Vickers has spent more than four decades studying Shakespeare, and he's devoted countless hours over the past two years reaching his verdict on Edward III. "You have to go on hunches - you can't just feed in all the numbers on every play and sit back," he says. "But what I'm hoping to do is bring about a marriage between human reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plagiarism Software Finds a New Shakespeare Play | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...Reisz film, starring Albert Finney, about a young working-class iconoclast and self-mythologizer - just like Clough. The Damned United is an homage to films of the British new wave - Saturday Night, A Kind of Loving - in the way that it exposes how Britain's old class divisions stunted countless lives. Clough and Revie were intelligent men for whom soccer promised a release from a life down the pit or in the factories. Then they discovered that the game was run by small-town businessmen with patronizing attitudes straight out of Dickens. The wonder is not that both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Sheen Scores in The Damned United | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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