Word: box
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...Denzel Washington, 52, not in the top 10 last year. His 2006 films: Inside Man, which grossed $88.5 million at the domestic box office, and Deja Vu, a modest $52.5 million...
...Barack Obama was elected to the Senate. Indeed, of the Harris 10, Smith and Depp are the only two who are under 50 and had a hit movie last year. Depp fronted only the third movie in history to earn more than a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, and he dropped from #2 to a seventh-place tie. Clooney can star in and direct politico-art movies, like Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck, and be an outspoken liberal just ahead of the Iraq-fatigue curve, yet he stays more or less in the same slot over...
...print in the Harris poll, and noted that it was weighted for many variables, but not to mirror the average age of moviegoers. Its respondents were all 18 and over. And that is, pretty much, a demographic the studios ignore. Hollywood takes its own poll every weekend, at the box office, and there the kids, as they have been for 30 years...
...classic experiments begun in the mid-1980s in which babies were shown physical events that appeared to violate such basic concepts as gravity, solidity and contiguity. In one such experiment, by University of Illinois psychologist Renée Baillargeon, a hinged wooden panel appeared to pass right through a box. Baillargeon and M.I.T.'s Elizabeth Spelke found that babies as young as 31/2 months would reliably look longer at the impossible event than at the normal one. Their conclusion: babies have enough built-in knowledge to recognize that something is wrong...
...psychoactive drugs like Ritalin and Prozac are already manipulating brain function in millions of people. And future pharmaceuticals, Farah says, targeting very specific parts of the brain, will be even more effective and will have fewer side effects. These new brain-control tools open a Pandora's box of ethical and philosophical dilemmas, including what kind of society--and what kinds of selves--we want...