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...Gitesh Pandya notes on boxofficeguru.com, "the number of $20M+ openers rose from 11 last year to 18 this year while the amount of films crossing the $100M mark skyrocketed from just one in 2008 to six in the current year." Pandya points out that the summer biggies should benefit from the success of off-season fare, since moviegoers get bombarded with previews of coming attractions, the previews often tailored to the genre of the picture playing. No warm-weather film is going to tiptoe into theaters; if a major-studio movie is opening in the next few months...
...This is especially disrespectful to fellow students who would benefit from the DREAM Act. In 2006, there were at least 10 unauthorized migrant youth at Harvard College. I personally know of at least half a dozen. Unauthorized youth are the most visceral representation of what is wrong with contemporary migration policy in the United States. For anyone familiar with this aspect of the migration debate, the stories of unauthorized youth are ubiquitous: 65,000 unauthorized youth graduate from our high schools every year. They are brought to this country at a young age; some arrive before they can even remember...
...data matches computer models run by biostatisticians like Longini, who found that even the strictest limits on air travel would only slow the start of a flu pandemic, not stop its spread. But, again, while that strategy may benefit countries that have not yet been infected with swine flu, there's still no way to know when it would be safe to lift those restrictions. "There's no question that air travel spreads the flu," says Mandl, a physician and researcher at the informatics program at Children's Hospital Boston and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School...
...hope we will continue to have a strong partnership based on mutuality of interest--that we'll be able to attract U.S. investment and that they in turn will be able to benefit from our raw materials. We hope that our success will be seen as one that has been sponsored and supported by this partnership with...
...through and made him such a ferocious competitor.” From his saving of the economy during the panic of 1869 to his aiding of the Union Navy at President Lincoln’s request, Stiles explained that Vanderbilt led an exciting life but one for his personal benefit. According to the author, “his life played out in an ever going stage against suppressive opponents.” Stiles said he believes that Vanderbilt is an ideal entrepreneur and that an intense research of his personal life reveals a fulfillment of the American dream, a real...