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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Phenomenon, an 11-min. shot of a wall clock without a second hand. In Fisher's film, viewers were meant to concentrate so intently that they could see the minute hand move. PA uses a similar strategy: the stationary camera in the overnight bedroom scenes has a time code at the bottom right of the frame. Sometimes the clock spins like mad to show the passing of hours between phenomena - and in one super-creepy scene, there is the image of Katie standing motionless, as if still asleep, for two hours straight. It's even more chilling a few nights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paranormal Activity: A Horror Phenomenon | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

...Brief History of the 401(k) Congress was trying to close a loophole on executive bonuses when it created the 401(k). Most companies intended 401(k)s - which were originally called salary-reduction plans but then renamed for the portion of the tax code that makes them possible - to be a perk for highly paid executives, not a pension replacement. That's because lower-paid employees probably could not afford to defer a portion of their paychecks. So companies held on to their pension systems even as they added 401(k)s, which by law they had to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why It's Time to Retire the 401(k) | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...government is guaranteeing that nobody will come forward again and disclose information about tax fraud on this scale," says Dean Zerbe, a tax attorney representing Birkenfeld in his dealings with the IRS. Zerbe also served as tax counsel for the Senate Finance Committee; in 2006 it revised the tax code to include whistle-blower protections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is the UBS Whistle-Blower Headed to Prison? | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

...resources and the determination needed to see the process through. In August this year Vietnam's Health Ministry announced the discovery of dozens of violations of the country's formula labeling rules. In its latest Breaking the Rules, Stretching the Rules report from 2007, IBFAN documents over 3,000 Code violations, committed by 12 companies in 67 countries, and collected since 2004. (See pictures of pregnant-belly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philippines Kicks Off Global Mass Breastfeeding | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

...reality, after the signing of the Philippines' own National Milk Code, "the implementation was spotty, irregular, not done consistently," says Health Undersecretary Alexander Padilla. Held up by legal complaints from milk companies who saw the code as an unlawful affront to their industry, the domestic law went through 12 drafts over 19 years. "We went through public hearings, consultations; we even tried to process the complaints of the milk companies - until when we couldn't agree on anything anymore, they brought the case to the Supreme Court," says Padilla. The milk companies' efforts finally lost the case when the Supreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philippines Kicks Off Global Mass Breastfeeding | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

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