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So the best character in the third Ice Age is a shameless rip-off of one of the most tried and true characters in recent cinematic history. Given the rest of the franchise, the limited creativity is not surprising. But what's really frustrating about the movie is how little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Frozen Stereotypes | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

Among other things, this all means fathers are now much better positioned to write parenting books like Michael Lewis' Home Game and Sam Apple's American Parent: My Strange and Surprising Adventures in Modern Babyland. These are nothing like the self-punishing Momoirs of old, nor the earnest advice books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parenting Advice: What Moms Should Learn From Dads | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

Defining the parameters of this new normal is not something that can be done with pinpoint precision. I started paying attention to the news (and subscribing to Time) during another period of economic turmoil, the late 1970s, and soon became convinced that I would never know a world in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fun-Free Recovery | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

You note that 47% of men and 35% of women get involved either emotionally or sexually with someone other than their spouse. Do you think one type of affair - emotional or physical - is more dangerous than the other? No. If the other person would feel betrayed, then it's an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Good People Cheat | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

That may not seem all that surprising for such a closed society as North Korea's, now locked in a heated standoff with the West over both its nuclear-weapons program and its jailing of two U.S. reporters. But even amid those tensions, the Hermit Kingdom is trying to stimulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea Tries to Ramp Up Tech Infrastructure | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

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