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Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind popularized astronomer J. Allen Hynek's classification of alien encounters. The third kind was contact. The fourth is abduction. We're reminded of this at the beginning of the new movie. Then Milla Jovovich (taking a big step down from her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fourth Kind: Subnormal Activity | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

Will O'Brien, general manager of social and casual games at TrialPay, a company that matches advertisers with potential online clients, told the San Francisco Chronicle that offers to swap personal information for virtual cash are designed to reach the young because they're less likely to have a credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are You Getting Scammed by Facebook Games? | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

Mark Pincus of Zynga, the largest and most profitable of the social-networking game companies, (it created FarmVille, Mafia Wars and Cafe World) was quick to respond. "I agree with [Arrington] and others that some of these offers misrepresent and hurt our industry," he wrote on his blog. "We have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are You Getting Scammed by Facebook Games? | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

So Friday's jobless number from the Labor Department will quickly become a political football. The Labor Department reported that the widely watched unemployment rate rose to 10.2%, the highest rate since April 1983, as nonfarm payrolls declined by 191,000 in October, down from a revised loss of 219...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unemployment Rises to 10.2%, Stoking the Economic Debate | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

Moreover, the ethnic group that inhabits this remote, mountainous part of the world, know as the Monpa, has always stood somewhat apart from the Tibetans of the plateau, despite sharing their religious and cultural outlook. In the days when political power was concentrated in Lhasa, Tibetans would look down upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond India vs. China: The Dalai Lama's Agenda | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

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