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...early to tell whether 2009 sales will match last year's, says Chocosuisse's Schmid. But some Switzerland-based chocolate producers are confident that the industry's immediate future is far from bleak. Lindt, makers of the iconic golden bunnies, predicts its 2009 sales are likely to increase by between 2 and 5% - short of its target of 6 to 8%, but still not bad in the current economy. While Nestlé, which manufactures, among other brands, Cailler and KitKat, is not releasing figures until the end of April, company chairman Peter Brabeck recently told Swiss newsmagazine Weltwoche that even...
...believe in god? Do you believe in ghosts? Do you believe you can tell when someone is staring at the back of your head? Religious or not, Bruce Hood believes that this is all a result the way the brain is designed. In Supersense, he describes how adult superstitions and beliefs in a higher power all comes from our inherent need to find patterns and order in the world. Hood talked to TIME about superstitions, shared beliefs and why most people would not want to wear Jeffrey Dahmer's cardigan.(What happens when we die? Read the TIME interview...
...never thought you could like Mike Tyson. Fallen pugilist who destroyed his career, convicted rapist—not to mention an ear-biting demon in the ring—Tyson has a bad rap. Societal mores of compassion advocate human understanding in the face of seriously bad behavior; they tell us that people are complicated, that we should delve beneath the surface of society’s most troubled and attempt to connect. But for most people, the only way to interact with such a terrifying person is superficial at best.Documentary filmmaking provides the opportunity to truly deliver someone else?...
...figuring out what kinds of things I needed, they weren’t very helpful.” “They were helpful in directing me to different resources,” said Milewski. “I would go in and ask for help, and they would tell me things that I already knew.” Goodman said that in spite of the faltering economy, the budget for next year’s Rockefeller grants will not shrink, since the gift had been specifically tied to student travel. —Staff writer Edward-Michael Dussom...
...Ayers adds. “We even tried to say a certain word with different inflections, and even those slight changes made a huge change.”The main objective of “The Exonerated” is to reach beyond the confines of fictional drama and tell more than just a story. The work strives to provoke critical thought about the death penalty and its ramifications, issues that are pertinent to present-day U.S., one of the several western countries still using capital punishment as a form of retributive justice.“This is a story...