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...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 on Dec. 21, 2012, and next week Roland Emmerich has a thriller on that very...

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

...These offers, generally known in the business as lead-gen (lead generators), will give you some seed/tractor money in return for signing up for, say, a subscription to Netflix or a credit card. But less scrupulous advertisers lure players in with an offer to take a bogus survey or IQ test. Once it's completed they require a cell-phone number to send you the results. When you enter your cell number and create a password, you have unwittingly subscribed to a service you never wanted but will be billed for. If you're a kid, the mysterious charge then...

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

...film, directed by David Fincher and written by The West Wing’s Aaron Sorkin, chronicles the rise of Facebook founder and former Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg. Among other well-known actors, the movie stars Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, and Andrew Garfield...

Author: By ZOE A. Y. WEINBERG, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Facebook Movie Films At Johns Hopkins U. | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...population. As a result, there was immediate chemistry between Clinton and General David Petraeus, author of the Army's counterinsurgency manual, who became one of her prime military mentors when she served on the Senate Armed Services Committee. At one point, well before Obama made his presidential intentions known, I asked Petraeus if there was any potential Democratic candidate who understood how his mind worked, and he said, "You mean, aside from Hillary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The State of Hillary: A Mixed Record on the Job | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...failure of the European Parliament to include a reference to the "Christian roots" of Europe in the E.U. constitution a few years back. In 2004, a committee of the same parliament was also responsible for torpedoing the nomination for European commissioner of Rocco Buttiglione, a prominent Italian politician known for his traditional Catholic views and friendship with Pope John Paul II. (See pictures of Pope Benedict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Crucifixes Be Banned in Italian Schools? | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

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