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...Bell month at the movies. Bell, who in the '90s made his late-night show Coast to Coast AM home for believers in all manner of paranormal activity - a kind of true-life radio version of The X Files - must be tickled to see the November lineup at the multiplex. He and his guests talked about the psychic phenomenon known as remote viewing, which is the subject of this week's George Clooney semicomedy, The Men Who Stare at Goats. Bell promoted the notion that Mayan mystics predicted some great cataclysm to befall the earth...

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

...from help or, for that matter, from scientists who might investigate and challenge their stories. But isolation is a prime factor in horror stories - the fear of being alone, in the dark, confronted with some mysterious, nefarious force - and that suits the Nome, Alaska, setting of The Fourth Kind, a supposed semidocumentary on an abduction case. It's the fall's very Art-Belliest movie. Also possibly the silliest. (See pictures of movie flying saucers...

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

...house was built in 1932, which is kind of unusual because that was in the darkest times of the Great Depression, so not a lot of homes were being built. We bought it from the original owner, and she had bought it as a newlywed with her husband and had it for over 50 years,” Mankiw explains...

Author: By Catherine J. Zielinski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FM Cribs Presents: N. Gregory Mankiw | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...rebels has been an economic boon for Colombia. Economic growth from 2002 to 2008 averaged an impressive 5.3% annually. But the number of working-class Colombians bolting for Venezuela hints that Uribe has yet to make that new wealth trickle down - a failing that could simply continue the kind of inequality that has fueled civil wars in Colombia for centuries. "The economic growth statistics published in the media are one thing," says Patricia Yañez, a sociologist at the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas who studies Chávez's anti-poverty programs. Colombia's migratory data "suggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela vs. Colombia: The Battle Over Emigrés | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...John Dempsey, a Kabul-based analyst for the U.S. Institute of Peace, is doubtful that a new Karzai administration will make the necessary changes. "Everyone knows that Karzai is self-interested and corrupt," says Dempsey. "Of course he is a kind man who cares, and who wants the best for Afghanistan, but that is not his paramount concern. His paramount concern is making sure that he and his cronies are enriching themselves and are in positions of power. Afghanistan comes second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the U.S. Win in a Karzai-Led Afghanistan? | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

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