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...those numbers. "Except for Pixar, I have made the four most successful original movies in a row of all time," he says--not as a boast but to explain Hollywood math. His films are relatively inexpensive to shoot, costing about $65 million to $68 million. "If you're not betting on me," he says, "then nobody should get money. I've made profit a mathematical certainty. I'm the safest bet...
...yourself this question: In the offices of the future, which skill set will today's kids draw upon in their day-to-day tasks? Mastering interfaces, searching for information, maintaining virtual social networks and multitasking? Or doing algebra? I think the answer is obvious. It's a good bet that 99% of kids will never use algebra again after they graduate from high school. And yet thanks to the testing establishment, we know a staggering amount about the algebraic skills of today's teenagers but next to nothing about the skills they're actually going...
...military never closed its doors, and service was passed down like a gold pocket watch. Sometimes it was a good safe bet, all beer gardens and the G.I. Bill, and sometimes it was snake eyes, and the soldiers found themselves at a Chosin Reservoir, or a Hue, or on a wrong turn to Nasiriyah...
...making a success of the country and race relations. William Gould Oudtshoorn, South Africa Crossing out al-Zarqawi's face in blood red sent a strong message. He was an embodiment of evil who deserved his fate, and your graphic statement was right on the money. Still, I bet that you received lots of protests from softhearted readers decrying the image. Paul G. Rees Tucson, Arizona, U.S. Profiting from Time Off I enjoyed Po Bronson's essay on how Americans are unable to relax [June 26]. In a global economy in which a day's meetings might start...
...Betting on baseball gets boring." KEN MOORE, graphic designer in Massachusetts, one of thousands of gamblers to have bet in foreign online casinos on how many hurricanes will hit the U.S. in 2006. Online betting is illegal...