Last weekend more than 115, 000 people visited the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan for New York Comic Con, a four day celebration of science fiction, fantasy, gaming and all kinds of geek entertainment.

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Graeme (Simon Pegg) and Clive (Nick Frost), who write and illustrate science-fiction books, attend Comic-Con, in San Diego, and then, on a tour of alien-flavored sites of interest, bump into an actual alien.

NEWYORKER: Paul

On this view, these institutions are little more than con-tricks at the moment, built on the illusion that you can turn management into a science and dedicated to the unedifying goal of teaching greedy people how to satisfy their appetites.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter