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...sure enough, the Engineers’ fans shook the arena with their cheers in the final minutes, as their team completed a two-goal comeback...
This trap was designed to give consumers a cheap way to determine if they have - or, in many cases, still have - a bedbug problem that requires a proper extermination. Bedbugs have made a serious comeback in North America over the past few years, especially in big cities like Toronto and San Francisco. And they are notoriously hard to get rid of. As evidence, amid the enthusiastic talk on Bedbugger.com about the Rutgers invention, one commenter noted, "Dude, I am so going to try this once a month...
...while the Dwayne Johnson tyke comedy Tooth Fairy, in its fourth week, is the highest-ranking holdover except for Avatar. And as proved by the success of Valentine's Day and Dear John (which dethroned Avatar last week but fell to fifth this time), romance has made a big comeback. (See the top 10 Oscar nomination snubs...
Oddly, it's the burly action movies, usually the dominant genre, that fell out of recent audience favor. The otherworldly Daybreakers and Legion have underperformed, as has Mel Gibson's comeback revenge vehicle Edge of Darkness. And although $30 million isn't a bad start for Benicio Del Toro as Wolfman, the picture will need long legs, here and abroad, to earn back its husky $125 budget. Only Sherlock Holmes ($204 million) and The Book of Eli (which will hit $100 million before it's finished) have capitalized on blood and fisticuffs. Indeed, depending on whether you count Avatar...
Yanukovych's victory marks an astonishing comeback for a man written off in the West as a ballot rigger, a Moscow stooge and a Soviet-style apparatchik. It was claims of massive vote rigging that brought thousands of Ukrainians into the streets of Kiev in 2004. The protests, dubbed the Orange Revolution, overturned Yanukovych's tainted victory and vaulted Viktor Yushchenko into the presidency. (See 10 political sequels, including Yanukovych's comeback...