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...Moreover, Bad has a lot more menace in him than the Dude; he's so self-destructive that anyone around him is likely to get hit with some sort of whiskey-soaked shrapnel. Indeed, alarm bells go off the minute we hear that the love interest he meets on the road, an aspiring journalist named Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), has a 4-year-old. (And she's a single mother, movie shorthand for Vulnerable with Babysitting Issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy Heart Review: Jeff Bridges Abides | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

...cold. In that respect, GJ 1214b is again a near miss. Its surface temperature hovers at a sweltering 190°C (374°F), which is well above the boiling point of water, at least in Earth's atmospheric pressure. Fortunately, GJ 1214b's atmosphere makes the pressure a lot higher than on Earth - "crushing," as Charbonneau describes it - and increases the odds of liquid water. (Under pressure, water can remain liquid above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super-Earth: Astronomers Find a Watery New Planet | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

...authoritarian parenting style predicts a lot of disagreements and runs the greatest risk of having a child trying to get around their parents’ strategies,” Byrne said. “Agreement on any [risk prevention] strategy is predicted by households that report pretty good communicative relationships with their children...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cyber Safety Expert Visits | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

...price to more than $100 over the next few weeks and then lowered it back to $78 last Saturday. Best Buy has insisted that it will match its competitors' prices, so with Walmart acting so aggressively, the consumer will always win. "Walmart doesn't care if it makes a lot of money on electronics," says Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities. "They'll make margins on other stuff in the store." (See the top 10 toy crazes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Consumer Electronics Light Up the Holiday Season | 12/15/2009 | See Source »

...easy, says a youth pastor whose church supports Advent Conspiracy. "When you start jacking with people's idea of what Christmas is and you start to go against this $450 billion machine of materialism and consumerism, it really messes with people," he explains. "It takes a lot of patience to say there's a different way - Christmas doesn't have to be like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Church Group Attacks Christmas Commercialism | 12/15/2009 | See Source »

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