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...telling. At the domestic box office, this no-star drama has already earned more than $34 million - about double the cumulative take of three Golden Globe winners from last year (La Vie en Rose, Julie Christie as an Alzheimer's sufferer in Away from Her and Cate Blanchett's Bob Dylan impression in I'm Not There). It has already made more than what 2008's film drama winner, Atonement, had cadged by this time last year. Remember that Juno came out of nowhere a year ago and revved up to a $143 million domestic gross. Not that Slumdog...
...Charlotte, N.C. - anywhere local businesspeople raise seed capital and a bank will host low-cost savings accounts for borrowers with just a few dollars, since savings are a key part of the Grameen philosophy. "There are whole populations that aren't being reached by the banking sector," says Bob Annibale, director of microfinance at Citibank, which partners with Grameen in New York. Like other financial giants, Citi sees a lucrative new market in the unbanked. But attracting those customers isn't easy, and Citi is overjoyed to have Grameen deliver them...
...cross data between the various measurements.” The data the plane collects will be “fed into computer models” in order to help “put together the picture of where the carbon dioxide is coming from,” said Bob Henson, a science writer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The outputs of such models could potentially contribute to global discussions about the environment, he said. The mission, which has been in the works since 2004, will cost “$2 million for the science and another $2 million...
...about that "half of the Kingston Trio"... When founder Dave Guard left the group in 1960, John Stewart replaced him, joining Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane. The Trio was a late-'50s chart sensation that helped establish the album, not the single, as the unit of pop music. Reviled and/or envied by purists, the group nonetheless got a myriad of kids hooked on traditional music. They were the training wheels of the folk movement, and kept wearing their smiles and striped shirts for decades as a tribute band to themselves. Reynolds was 75, Stewart...
...careers of R&B giants Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, made a crossover star of Bobby Darin, kept the Drifters a top act through ever-changing personnel and in the '70s signed the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. Wexler produced Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis LP and Bob Dylan's first Grammy-winning album, the 1979 Slow Train Coming...