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...intriguing premise - of a world in which people stay at home while their lifelike robots do all the work - virtually told audiences that this was one to catch, if at all, on DVD. And Willis, except for his fourth dip into the Die Hard franchise two years ago, hasn't come near blockbuster status in the past decade. Reports of friction between the star and his director, Jonathan Mostow, certainly didn't create a must-see mood - though, in a John Horn story in the Los Angeles Times, the principals issued statements of the sort written by lawyers after...
...front. Down-payment assistance is considered by many to have contributed to the crisis because it helped people buy homes they couldn't really afford. Anyone who doesn't understand that it's a bad idea to push people into buying houses when they're not ready to hasn't been paying attention for the past two years. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
Stop the presses: the Fed chairman says the recession is over and the recovery has begun! Never mind that, as Bernanke noted, this is by now common opinion among economic forecasters--and has been for weeks. Also never mind that Bernanke's prediction record as Fed chairman hasn't been stellar. This is the man, after all, who told Congress in March 2007 that "the impact ... of the problems in the subprime market seems likely to be contained...
...kernels of wisdom to existing pages. "When we first noticed it, we thought it was a blip," says Ed Chi, a computer scientist at California's Palo Alto Research Center whose lab has studied Wikipedia extensively. But Wikipedia peaked in March 2007 at about 820,000 contributors; the site hasn't seen as many editors since. "By the middle of 2009, we realized that this was a real phenomenon," says Chi. "It's no longer growing exponentially. Something very different is happening now." See the 50 best websites...
That may continue for some time, given the lack of study on the topic. Although the term "video game addiction" appeared in the research as early as 1983 - in reference to kids getting hooked on arcade games - the scientific evidence hasn't progressed much since. Anecdotally, therapists who now specialize in video-game and Internet addiction say it's a growing and serious problem. But it will be some time before it meets the threshold for inclusion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V). "The central issue is the absence of research literature on this," says...