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...bigger than Avatar, which took in $77 million its first weekend last December. Alice made its big bucks the same way: it took the pill that makes you larger and went wide in 3-D. Of its 3,728 North American venues, 2,063 were on 3D screens, plus another 180 in Imax 3-D. So Alice topped Avatar as the all-time biggest opener in the stereoptic format. "It also shattered Avatar's recently set IMAX record," the industry web site The Wrap reported, "selling out each of the 188 digital 3-D outlets...
...near the $2.5 billion global gross of James Cameron's epic, which become the all-time top grosser in Energizer fashion, by just going and going and going. Alice got so-so reviews from critics, but it achieved a healthy A- rating from Cinemascore's poll of people who'd just seen the movie; and it should hang on through spring break until another 3-D release, the DreamWorks animated feature How to Train Your Dragon, opens...
...decades ago, a Thai gardener climbed into the palace of a Saudi prince through a second-story window, busted open a safe with a screwdriver and stole some 200 pounds of jewelry. The former Saudi chargé d'affaires in Bangkok told the Washington Post that the gardener stuffed "rubies the size of chicken eggs" in his vacuum-cleaner bag, along with a huge, nearly flawless blue diamond, which at 50 carats would be one of the largest blue diamonds in the world...
...rest of his time aboard, they didn't speak to each other. "I became a pariah, and she just refused to talk to me," Kaprow said. "When she saw me eating in the wardroom, she'd come in and grab her food and run away - she would not talk to me." Kaprow can't explain how Graf continued to rise up the Navy command ladder. "Certain people in the Navy are preselected for command, and no matter what happens, the Navy will make sure that it happens," he said...
...strides in the first decade of its existence toward increased cooperation between the country's three ethnic groups and a greater centralization of powers. But in the run-up to the 2006 elections, the country saw a spike in nationalist rhetoric from both Bosniaks and Serbs - and the tenuous détente was derailed. This was when Dodik, who had previously been considered a moderate by many in the international community, began promising an independence referendum. Since that time, Bosnia has been virtually paralyzed...