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...Here, subject to change at any moment, are Box Office Mojo's official weekend estimates of the top 10 movies...
Will Ferrell, in the screen persona he's perfected over a healthy six-year box-office run, takes the boy's-mind-in-a-man's-body transference a smart step further. In such hits as Old School, Anchorman, Talladega Nights and Blades of Glory, he plays overage children who try to act like adults, with their steely intonations and take-charge attitude. His usual character is the kind of fellow who learned how real men behave by watching Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford movies - Hollywood, not life, has been his teacher, and he's not such a quick study...
...current assistant director of the Bourget Air and Aerospace Museum, outside Paris. "The current Air France investigation will be much harder, since little debris has been recovered, and the material that has - because it floats - will only tell one part of the story at best. Getting the black box is very important...
...That's why, with 20 or so days left before Flight 447's black box stops its sonar pinging, the French sub and two radar-equipped ships from the U.S. and the Netherlands have joined the hunt. Their job is daunting. "Experts in the TWA and Swissair inquiries did absolutely excellent work, but they recovered sea wreckage in depths of 100 to 130 ft. [30 to 40 m], while the Air France search is in waters of about 12,000 ft. [3,600 m]," says aeronautic engineer Favé. "With most of Flight 447 that far underwater, French investigators...
...Take your own pen with you, because at the ballot box they may hand out pens whose ink turns invisible after a while," was one of many mass mobile text messages circulated by the opposition in the tense run-up. "Wouldn't that equally affect Ahmadinejad votes?" asked one confused voter, 19-year-old Farid Shobeiri, who had shown up in Tehran's Vanak Square to show his support for the President's main rival, Mir-Hossein Mousavi. "Of course they'll only distribute those pens in clearly pro-Mousavi stations in north Tehran," was the matter-of-fact response...