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When the movie Iron Man hit video stores Sept. 30 - the same week Congress was squabbling over the $700 billion bailout bill - it sold 500,000 copies on Blu-Ray in seven days, a record for the nascent high-definition home entertainment format. In bad times, we still need our good times, maybe more than ever. At least that's what the companies that sell TV, movies, video games and other recreational commodities are counting on as the economic crisis deepens. "People are feeling like they're depriving themselves of fun they would be having by buying...
...problem," he says. "You've got to start with the data." Collecting and analyzing data from the state's 62 counties would have been costly, so the task force went to RealtyTrac. New York was hardly alone. "RealtyTrac does the shoe leather," says Israel Klein, deputy staff director for Congress's Joint Economic Committee, which shepherded July's federal housing legislation. "When we want to try to get a picture of what communities are hit hardest, their data is very helpful...
...risks of sharing one’s genome sequence are significantly lower than they were last spring, when the PGP-10 agreed to embark on this project. In May, Congress passed the first piece of legislation to protect against discrimination based on an individual’s genetic information for health insurance and employment opportunities...
...political robo-calls to the same household more than twice a day and mandating that such calls be made during the hours of 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. It didn't take long for the American Association of Political Consultants to launch a fundraising drive to challenge the bill. Congress has yet to vote...
...discovery has renewed debate over whether a crude-thirsty U.S. should loosen its 46-year-old trade embargo against Cuba and let yanqui firms join the drilling, which is taking place fewer than 100 miles off U.S. shores. Despite the Bush Administration's hard line on Cuba, Republicans in Congress have proposed legislation to exempt Big Oil from the embargo. That clamor is sure to rise - especially if Barack Obama, who is more open to dialogue with Havana, becomes the next President - now that Cuba's state oil company, Cubapetroleo, or Cupet, has announced a stunning new estimate of more...