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...million tickets, 15 million of them overseas, and only slightly better for 2002's Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, which did almost as well. Asterix has a massive fan base to draw upon: the comic books have sold 330 million copies in over 100 languages. While France likes to boast of its high-brow credentials, Asterix books easily outsell those of worthy rivals Proust, Sartre and Balzac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Asterix Conquer Europe? | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

Princeton also features potent outside shooters in Addie Micir and Ali Prichard, who respectively boast .400 and .379 shooting percentages from behind...

Author: By Alison E. Schumer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ivy Play Continues for Crimson | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...ensure he'd have the resources to make good on that boast, Venter joined hands with global technology giant Perkin-Elmer, forming a new company called Celera, which took its name from the middle of the word accelerate. The Celera-backed Venter and the NIH-backed Collins briefly explored collaborating, but those efforts fell through, and over the next two years the two camps worked feverishly, occasionally volleying in the press over whose method was better or whose intentions were purer. Collins sniffed at Venter's plans to create a genome database whose basic map he would make available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scientist Creates Life — Almost | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

...album?"They tried to make me go to rehab/I said 'No, no, no'"?Winehouse is in complete control of her out-of-control tale. "You know that I'm no good," she sings with remarkable power and sinew in another song, and it's not a boast, though her put-downs of the men who would take advantage of her certainly are. Throughout, she's mouthy, funny, sultry and quite possibly crazy, yet unlike Britney Spears or a dozen other pop idiot savants, Winehouse not only knows who she is but is able to express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble Woman | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

...slightly absurd experiment known as the 2008 Nevada caucuses, Hillary Rodham Clinton had a lot of the tactical disadvantages. Her main opponent for the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama, could boast the coveted endorsement of the 60,000-member Culinary Workers union. Caucus organizers set up special precincts on the Las Vegas Strip designed to make it easier for those union members who worked Saturday to cast their votes. And John Edwards, though trailing in the race for the nomination, threatened to siphon support away from Clinton because of his populist appeal to working class Democrats. Those disadvantages were substantial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary Wins Nevada, Economy Helps | 1/19/2008 | See Source »

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