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Kutner might not appear to be taking the apocalypse seriously - this is, after all, a man whose day job at The Daily Show involves reading depressing news and transforming it into "poop jokes." (Hear Kutner ponder the apocalypse on this week's Greencast.) But though the book is inspired comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bright Side of the End of the World | 7/5/2008 | See Source »

For the fifth time, portrait artist Michael J. Deas has created our cover. He does painstaking research into his subjects and takes about 12 weeks to finish a painting. At left, you see the full portrait (on the cover, we crop the image much closer), which shows Deas' obsession with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mark of Twain | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

Carlin took stand-up comedy to a new audience and helped redefine it as an art form. In the '70s he sold out concerts, released best-selling albums, starred in HBO specials. Then, after rebounding from drug problems, he reinvented himself a couple more times. In the '80s he re...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Carlin: Rebel at the Mike | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

But in the early '80s, after kicking his drug habit, he revived his career, becoming a kind of curmudgeonly uncle, with small-bore "observational" humor and an aphoristic style. Then, in the '90s, he tacked back to harder-edged political material, railing against everything from the environmental movement to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How George Carlin Changed Comedy | 6/23/2008 | See Source »

Today, things are different. Now 11 years old, Renee (a pseudonym, as is Jo) weighs 126 lb. (57 kg) and stands 4 ft. 5 in. (135 cm) tall--and Jo worries about obesity all the time. She worries about the health consequences of Renee's weighing too much, the ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weighty Issues for Parents | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

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