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...Neeson hit Taken. But it's also the umpteenth recent movie to deal with grieving over a lost loved one (Brothers, A Single Man, Broken Flowers, even Up) and at least the fourth (after The Lovely Bones, Creation and Nine) in which the dead communicate to the living. Audiences may have tired of the high mope factor in these movies; they'd prefer to see an action star spending less time at seances and more at old-fashioned ass-whups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avatar Pushes Mel Gibson Off the Edge | 1/31/2010 | See Source »

...President on Wednesday may have reassured Americans that the state of the Union is "strong," but, just the week before, a group of Vermont secessionists declared their intention to seek political power in a quest to get their state to quit the Union altogether. On Jan. 15, in the state capital of Montpelier, nine candidates for statewide office gathered in a tiny room at the Capitol Plaza Hotel, to announce they wanted a divorce from the United States of America. "For the first time in over 150 years, secession and political independence from the U.S. will be front and center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secessionist Campaign for the Republic of Vermont | 1/31/2010 | See Source »

...certificate was only one of several that emerged from the prestigious Salon du Chocolat in Paris, the annual summit of the world's master chocolatiers. But it may be enough to start a revolution in Peru. In October 2009, chocolate produced from the cacao beans of a small agricultural cooperative deep in one of the country's rain forests was named the most aromatic in the world by the Salon. "We used to be known for making cocaine paste, but now we are known for chocolate," says Elena Rios, 52, secretary of the Tocache Agroindustrial Cooperative. Rios herself gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drug Lords vs. Chocolate: From Coca to Cacao in Peru | 1/31/2010 | See Source »

...seems increasingly clear that someone must replace the President - and before the next elections in 2011. As Chidi Amuta, columnist for This Day newspaper, wrote this week: Yar'Adua's conduct "has fatally compromised his stature ... Contempt for the people may not appear in the constitution as an impeachable offense but ... even if he returns now hale and hearty, Yar'Adua is a marked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigerians Wonder: Could a Military Coup Help Us? | 1/31/2010 | See Source »

...hopes the club will expand to meet whatever the needs of its members may be, incorporating the fields of criminology...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CSI: Harvard | 1/30/2010 | See Source »

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