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...that sounds like a lot of trouble to put your loved ones through, several companies are eager to help you plan ahead - for a fee, of course. Legacy Locker, Asset Lock and Deathswitch are among the firms offering encrypted space for people to store their passwords and other information. "Digital legacy is at best misunderstood and at worst not thought about," says Legacy Locker founder Jeremy Toeman, who came up with the idea for his company midflight, when he was imagining what would happen to his many Web domains if the plane crashed. "I would be surprised if five years...
...cage (10 monkeys in all participated). The monkey was given an identical ball. One of the experimenters imitated whatever the monkey did with the ball - poking it, mouthing it, pounding it. The other experimenter didn't imitate the animal. (See pictures of monkeys and other animals in space...
...would be set in Blomkamp's native South Africa, focus on the country's traumatic tradition of apartheid, have characters who speak in unfamiliar accents or unknown languages, boast no star power - the lead actor had never acted in a movie, and his costar is one of the digitized space creatures derisively called "prawns" - and bear a title that sounds less like an action movie than a highway sign. The picture might have been destined to play art houses, or to be tossed in the direct-to-DVD bin. (Read TIME's District 9 review...
...success of District 9 spoke to the abiding power of sci-fi. The movie, which posits the imprisoning of space creatures in a Joburg detention camp, and the plight of their human warden who gets infected and forges a bond with the aliens to save his own life, is the sixth s-f action adventure to win a weekend in the 2009 summer season that began in early May with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. But it's the first one not sponsored by Hollywood - Jackson raised the money, Sony bought the rights - and the first South African film that American...
...believe that the Chinese expansion was natural because we filled the space left by Western governments, the United States, and international funding agencies, with China, Malaysia, India and other countries. The success of the Sudanese experiment in dealing with China without political conditions or pressures encouraged other African countries to look toward China...