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Often, though, the problem is not just about good habits or bad ones but about access to clean water or the ability to afford soap. In Bolivia, 25% of the country still doesn't have access to water in the home. Health officials recognize that every citizen must have a sink to wash their hands in before they can expect significant reduction in disease. But when more than half the population is already living with some sort of bacterial or parasitic stomach infection, it's crucial to encourage those who can wash their hands...
Fast Facts: • A U.S. citizen, Mehanna is the fifth person living in the U.S. to be arrested on terrorism charges in the past five months...
...Where the Wild Things Are, $32.5 million, first weekend 2. Law Abiding Citizen, $21 million, first weekend 3. Paranormal Activity, $20.2 million; $33.7 million, fourth week 4. Couples Retreat, $18 million; $63.3 million, second week 5. The Stepfather, $12.3 million, first weekend 6. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, $8.1 million; $108.3 million, fifth week 7. Zombieland, $7.8 million; $60.8 million, third week 8. Toy Story 3-D and Toy Story 2 3-D, $3 million; $28.6 million, third week 9. Surrogates, $1.9 million; $36.3 million, fourth week 10. The Invention of Lying, $1.9 million; $ 15.5 million, third week
...Abiding Citizen had no pedigree at all. Based on an original screenplay, it stars Gerard Butler as a decent fellow who, when his wife and daughter are murdered in front of him, is transformed into an evil genius, terrorizing assistant D.A. Jamie Foxx and the rest of Philadelphia with murders of a scheming, Saw-like sadism. Saddled with a scathing 16% score from the "top critics" monitored on Rotten Tomatoes (Wild Things nabbed a gentleman's 68%), Citizen won audiences on star quality and the movie marketplace's lack of other adult-themed melodrama - read: crap for grownups. Younger viewers...
...three pictures scored personal bests. Wild Things made 44% more in a weekend than what either of Jonze's previous two features, Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, earned in their entire runs. (Mind you, Wild Things cost a lot more: at least $80 million.) Law Abiding Citizen had the highest per-screen average of any film directed by F. Gary Gray. Oren Peli is a first-time auteur, but since he made Paranormal Activity in 2006 for a laughably low $11,000, he could boast that his movie made back more than twice its budget in each theater that showed...