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...beginning, Dec. 18, the Lord God Cameron created the heaven of Pandora and the movie of Avatar. And He saw that it was good, and other people thought so too, since it quickly sold $1.6 billion worth of tickets worldwide. And then, on the 29th day, Eli, a man of another God - the God - bestrode the multiplexes to raise holy Hell and challenge the Kingdom of Avatar. And, lo, he did tempt of the children of Cameron; so many of them ate the leaves of The Book of Eli that it was No.1 at the Friday domestic box office...
...better be. The International Energy Agency estimates that more than $10 trillion in investment will be needed over the next 20 years to support a global transition to a lower-carbon economy. We're nowhere near that - Lubber says that $140 billion was invested globally in renewable and low-carbon technologies last year, a number that she estimates will rise to $190 billion this year. "Those are significant numbers, but it's not enough," she says...
...current Medicaid-expansion proposal would cost the Federal Government about $395 billion from 2010 to 2019 under the Senate bill or about $425 billion under the House bill. The state share of the expansion, in contrast, would be $26 billion or $34 billion. Moving the state costs into the federal column, as Nelson is now suggesting, would increase the cost of legislation, which is already close to the $900 billion limit set by President Obama. Then again, House and Senate leaders are currently negotiating all sorts of adjustments for a merged bill, and any new Medicaid costs could be part...
...others, India's movie-mad audiences are a vital growth market. Domestic box-office revenues are expected to grow from their $2.5 billion today to over $4 billion in 2012, according to a 2009 entertainment-industry report by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the accounting and consulting firm KPMG. In the past, American studios operating from the Bollywood capital of Mumbai were limited by relatively few outlets; in 2005, there were only 13,000 single-screen cinemas in a country with 1.2 billion people. But India's real estate boom and 9% economic growth rate...
...Turkish-Israeli relations are still anchored by military cooperation, as they have been since the 1950s. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is due to visit Ankara next week, hoping to reinforce strategic ties and negotiate deals for Israel's military industries, which already have contracts worth more than $1 billion to supply Turkey. Meanwhile, a Turkish delegation is currently in Israel to wrap up the purchase of 10 Heron drones. "Defense ties have become the safety valve for bilateral relations," says Candar. "They prevent a complete breakdown. That doesn't change the fact that there has been a significant structural...