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...than the suddenly ubiquitous multicolored "Remember Haiti" ribbons dotting tuxes and gowns. Clutching a Golden Globe in his left hand, the night's big winner Avatar director James Cameron waxed philosophical about the entertainment community's response. "When Hollywood puts on the glitz, people of conscience are divided," Cameron told TIME. "You don't know how to react. Should we be happy, should we be sort-of happy?" (See TIME's exclusive pictures from Port-au-Prince...
...Strangulation in France. She believes that raising awareness about the game can save children from accidental death. It was only after police explained how her son Nicolas had died that Cochet began piecing together the warning signals she had missed. About six months before his death, he had told her about a "fun game. Then one day he had headaches. Another day I saw that he had marks on the edge of his neck," she says. "I saw all these things but didn't understand what they meant, because I didn't know that this game existed...
There are, but I actually can't say which, because if I told you, then you would go turn them into movies yourself. So I sadly have to plead the Fifth on that...
Interested in talking more about my theory, I used my landline to call Sherry Turkle, an MIT professor of the social studies of science and technology. She told me people are not only uninterested in Skype, we're also not interested in talking on the regular phone. We want to TiVo our lives, avoiding real time by texting or e-mailing people when we feel like it. "Skype, which was the fantasy of our childhood, gets you back to sitting there and being available in that old-fashioned way. Our model of what it was to be present to each...
After driving them eight hours north to Bloemfontein, the recruiter sold them to a Nigerian drug and human-trafficking syndicate in exchange for $120 and crack cocaine. "[The recruiter] said we could find a job," Sindiswa recalled, "but as soon as we got here, she told us, 'No. You have to go into the streets and sell yourselves.' " The buyer, Jude, forced them into prostitution on the streets of central Bloemfontein for 12 straight hours every night. Each morning, he collected their earnings - Sindiswa averaged $40 per night; Elizabeth, $65. Elizabeth tried to escape three times, once absconding for several...