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Since childhood, Concetta Bertoldi says, she has been a conduit through which the dead contact the living. TIME chatted with the popular author about how ordinary folk can commune with deceased relatives, what it's like on the Other Side, and other supernatural insights from her book Do Dead People Watch You Shower? (And yes, it turns out they...
...popular computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, he delivered his "Last Lecture" on Sept. 18, 2007. It became an Internet sensation, with a global audience charmed by his easy manner and insight, in awe of his complete lack of self-pity. It was as though he already knew more than he should, had dipped a ways into eternity and brought back some pieces for the rest of us to use in whatever ways and for whatever time we can. The end of the lecture, it turned out, was just the beginning...
Beer Pong is a virtual rendition of the popular college drinking game that requires players to toss Ping-Pong balls across a table and into a cup of beer (if your cup is hit, you drink). The game was designed for the popular Nintendo Wii platform, and its maker had planned to release it as the first game in its new Frat Party Games series. But concerned parents began sending angry letters to JV Games and Nintendo - Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal even got in on the action, sending his own missives to the companies - until JV Games agreed...
...verdict is the first of several to come in a series of legal cases facing the former PM and his inner circle. Thaksin himself, who was ousted in a September 2006 bloodless coup by a military clique that claimed the popular leader was corrupt, divisive and disrespectful of the nation's revered monarchy, also faces four separate trials on corruption-related charges. "This verdict makes it a lot more obvious that Thaksin might not survive his legal troubles," said Professor Jade Donavanik, a former dean of Siam University Law School in Bangkok...
After democratic elections resumed in late 2007 and his surviving political allies were elected, Thaksin returned to Bangkok. He is still enormously popular with poor and rural voters who felt his government, despite the charges against it, was the first to put their interests, like universal health care and debt relief for farmers, on the national agenda...