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...buzz was for Paranormal Activity, a Blair Witch-y haunted-house thriller that reportedly scared the pants off Steven Spielberg. Paramount has been showing it in college towns the past two weekends, asking viewers to vote online if they wanted the movie shown more widely. Shot for a joke-small $15,000, Paranormal has already earned $780,000 on just 33 screens. That's a frighteningly good haul, and guarantees a broader release - perhaps in time for Halloween...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: Zombie-ootiful! | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...grow. Best of all for Kibwezi, a place that's frequently stricken by drought, scientists believed that the plant thrived on arid land. Convinced they could reap large profits from the plant in the global craze for alternative energy sources, hundreds of farmers turned over acres of their small farms to jatropha. But it didn't take them long to realize what scientists have come to realize in recent months: what was once touted as a miracle plant that needed almost no water has turned out to be anything but that. (See pictures of a global food crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How a Biofuel 'Miracle' Ruined Kenyan Farmers | 10/4/2009 | See Source »

Michael Rosanoff, an epidemiology specialist with Autism Speaks, emphasizes that "the small sample size for estimating prevalence requires caution about interpreting this finding on a population-based scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the First Time, a Census of Autistic Adults | 10/3/2009 | See Source »

...limitation of the study is its relatively small size, says Brugha. Being the first of its kind, it also needs to be confirmed by other studies. Another issue, notes Richard Roy Grinker, an autism researcher and professor of anthropology at George Washington University, who was not involved in the work, is that the study looked only at adults in the general population. Had it included people living in institutions, which is where the most severely autistic adults are likely to be, the estimated rate of ASD may have been even higher than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the First Time, a Census of Autistic Adults | 10/3/2009 | See Source »

...makes me think that I should do the same." Pre-school teacher Isabel Costello, 54, said the downturn made the choice clearer. "These are difficult times for Ireland," she says. "But I think we're in a stronger position as part of the E.U. I'm not sure a small country like ours could survive on its own in the current climate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irish Ayes on Lisbon Treaty Have Europe Smiling | 10/3/2009 | See Source »

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