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Before throwing dirt on the Saw coffin, consider that the first film in the franchise, made for just $1.2 million back in 2004, earned $103.1 million worldwide; and that the total gross for the first five films is a whopping $669 million on a still stingy $35 million cumulative budget. That's the kind of return on investment that encourages a studio to keep grinding 'em out. Moreover, each of the last three entries made more than half its money in foreign markets, where Saw VI isn't going up against the no-budget specter of Paranormal. So gorenography aficionados...
...year, giving Hawaii the shortest school year in the nation. "It's completely Draconian," says Vernadette Gonzalez, whose 5-year-old daughter, Inez Anderson, is a kindergartner at Noelani. "People are shocked when they hear that this was allowed, or even considered as a sane solution to the budget crisis." Gonzalez fears that students will not be able to make up for the lost school time, noting that teachers are struggling to adapt their lesson plans. "It's not only passing on the cost to the parents but to the kids," she said. "They're getting a second-rate education...
...Noelani students joined nearly 170,000 other children across Hawaii whose teachers on Friday began an unprecedented state furlough program that will close classrooms 34 days over the next two years. The "furlough Fridays" are part of a controversial effort by Gov. Linda Lingle to deal with a projected budget deficit of nearly $1 billion. The cost-cutting measure has angered parents, lawmakers and children. Popular musician and Hawaii public school graduate Jack Johnson sang at a rally Friday morning at the state Capitol to protest the furloughs. During the rally, parents handed a petition bearing thousands of signatures protesting...
Furloughs were the budget-gap solution of choice for Lingle, a tough-talking Republican. Her administration also hopes to narrow the deficit with a similar furlough program agreed to this week with the state's largest public worker union, the Hawaii Government Employees Association. On the same day as the schools were closed, government offices, including the state's unemployment office, were shuttered. A complicated schedule closes numerous state offices two Fridays a month...
...England to the Pacific Northwest. The new technology does have support - for now. Fuels for Schools is a six-state program funded by federal and state money that helps to retrofit school boilers, switching them from burning oil and gas to wood. Starting in Vermont, it spread westward, giving budget-strapped local districts huge savings and a way to cut into buildups of forest deadfall that might otherwise fuel wildfires. However, it is now almost out of federal money. Even after the program helped retrofit heating systems in 10 Montana schools, the last state legislature refused to renew appropriations...