Word: bettered
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...standard two dimensions, is perhaps 10% to 20% of the budget. A ticket for How to Train Your Dragon costs $12.50 in 2-D at a Manhattan movie house. For 3-D, it's $17.50 - a 40% surcharge. For the 3-D IMAX version, $19.50, or 56% higher. The better news for studios: many of the Friday and Saturday screenings are already sold out. (See the top 10 movies...
...many of whom were brought here by their families as children. The event’s sponsors, Harvard College Act On A Dream and the Massachusetts Student Immigrant Movement, are part of a broader movement for the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act—better known as The DREAM Act—which promises a conditional path to legal residence for undocumented high school graduates who serve at least two years in the military or complete two years of higher education...
...gotten better over the years at accepting the inherent confusions that my name brings. I just smile in silence when the Greenhouse Café card swiper chirps, “Have a nice day, Henrietta!” Or when someone I meet up with for the first time in Lamont exclaims with shock, “I wasn’t expecting you to be a girl!” I can laugh it off and say, truthfully, that it happens all the time...
Dempsey believes farmers could be better persuaded to give up growing opium and cannabis if Western and Afghan officials introduced big incentives and subsidies for growing food crops and helped farmers sell them. One crucial problem, he says, is that the roads in southern Afghanistan are too dangerous for farmers to drive their crops to local markets. Groups of armed drug traffickers, meanwhile, travel through the countryside, buying opium and cannabis at the farm gates for cash. For many farmers in the area, making a living and staying alive - sadly - go hand in hand...
...will Benedict do it? A few weeks after the white smoke had signaled the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to be Pope Benedict XVI, I got a rather urgent call from my colleague Jordan. He was trying to get a better handle on his new spiritual leader and wanted to know what Benedict's stance had been on John Paul II's pleas back in 2000 for forgiveness of the Church's sins over the past millennia toward women, minorities and heretics. My sources, I told him, always said that Ratzinger had been skeptical about such public declarations, feeling they...