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...researchers then divided the volunteers into groups on the basis of their answers. Those who reported an improbably high number of correct answers were labeled dishonest. Most of the others were classified as honest. Researchers then averaged the fMRI data - which monitors blood flow and, therefore, activity inside the brain in real time - for each group to try to establish a neural signature that represented truth-telling and one that characterized lying. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...Watson mounted a heroic effort to win the British Open, only to fall short in a four-hole playoff against a much younger rival, that great gray sorcerer Albus Dumbledore led Harry Potter to the biggest opening for any film in the series. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will have taken in nearly $80 million in its Friday-to-Sunday session and about twice that in its first five days. That's not exactly magic of unprecedented immensity, but it's surely wizardry. (Read Richard Corliss' review of Half-Blood Prince...
...that boffo grosses come cheap. The Los Angeles Times points out that Half-Blood Prince cost nearly $400 million to make and market. And the studio, Warner Bros., has to share the HP6 revenue with the theaters showing it. But then comes the real money, from DVD and other home-entertainment streams. Everyone connected with the Potter franchise will get very rich; it's the potion that keeps on producing. (See pictures of Daniel Radcliffe...
...Half-Blood began by breaking The Dark Knight's Tuesday-midnight-screenings record ($22.2 million to $18.5 million), then from Wednesday through Saturday calmed down and notched daily grosses in the mid-$20 millions. It will finish Sunday night with the year's second highest opening frame, after Transformers 2. Over the five days, Half-Blood Prince didn't come near Revenge of the Fallen's opening $200 million bonanza. But in North America, at least, HP6 may have been seen by nearly as many people; they're just not paying as much to see it. As Nikki Finke notes...
Here are the studios' official weekend estimates for the top 10 movies, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, $79.4 million; $159.7 million, five days 2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, $17.7 million; $152 million, third week 3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, $13.8 million; $363.9 million, fourth week 4. Brüno, $8.4 million; $49.6 million, second week 5. The Hangover, $8.3 million; $235.9 million, seventh week 6. The Proposal, $8.3 million; $128.1 million, fifth week 7. Public Enemies, $7.6 million; $79.5 million, third week 8. Up, $3.1 million; $279.6 million...