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...Francisco-based site is looking to handle all the details of your online afterlife for $30 a year or a onetime fee of $300. To determine whether you have passed on, the firm will check with two "verifiers" (people you have designated to confirm your death) and examine a death certificate...
...Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff by Erin Arvedlund (Portfolio) carefully details how Madoff's marks, some of them supposedly sharp hedge-fund managers, became feeder funds for Madoff's enterprise by willfully or negligently failing in their due diligence to check out the bogus Madoff claims. "The same people did more research on buying a car than they did on the man who handled their money," she writes...
...Julie & Julia, in fourth place; Katherine Heigl's The Ugly Truth, in eighth; and the she-loves-me-not rom-com (500) Days of Summer, in tenth. Kids could see G-Force (fifth), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (seventh) and the Disney-released Ponyo (ninth). (Check out TIME's Time Traveler's Wife review...
...cover some of the losses he was taking on the $60,000 down payment he'd sunk into a house. So the agent created a separate contract, never shown to the bank, that said the new buyer had to purchase a $60,000 Persian carpet from the seller - a check his mortgage company, which was sucking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses on the short sale, would never see. When the buyer - who was happy just to get a deal on the house - asked if the Persian carpet was really worth $60,000, the agent looked...
...know when you joined Twitter how powerful a communication tool it would become? -Jenny Johnson, London I didn't know anything about it when I joined. I was on Facebook. I was on MySpace. And somebody said to me, You should check out this thing called Twitter. I knew five people that were on it, so I started following those people and seeing what they were doing and then I applied my own sensibility to it. The more that I shared, the more people started following me. (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...