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...last weekend's new offerings, the dystopian vampire drama Daybreakers and the Michael Cera comedy Youth in Revolt lost way more than half their original grosses to pratfall out of the top 10. The drop for Amy Adams' rom-com Leap Year was not so steep; it stayed on the heels of the similar, more star-laden It's Complicated. The two big Christmas hits, Alvin and Sherlock, remained in the top five, while The Blind Side, the Sandra Bullock sports weepie that has been in the top 10 for nine consecutive weeks, is still the season's sleeper smash...
...year earlier. However, it missed analysts' projections. Investors were particularly miffed at Alcoa's revenue number, which totaled $5.43 billion, down 4.6% from $5.69 billion a year ago. Analysts had been expecting revenue growth. Investors subsequently dumped shares, causing the stock to plunge 11%, its worst one-day drop since last March. "The reaction [to Alcoa's miss] is a reflection of what's to come," says Cass. "Welcome to 2010, where scrutiny and reckoning and ramifications are in vogue and giving people the benefit of the doubt is very last year...
...economic growth has been the envy of its developing neighbors in southeast Asia. In the last 20 years, GDP growth has fallen only once below 5%, typically hovering around 8% as the single-party state has attracted tens of billions of dollars in foreign investment and seen poverty rates drop below that of India, China and the Philippines...
...through a lot of rules we can scrap. What are the big ones? Domar: You have to sleep eight hours every day, or else you're going to drop dead or get fat. For my patients, that's a huge one. Whether they can't sleep because they're nervous or their kids wake them up or whatever, they're absolutely convinced that a few nights of interrupted sleep is really bad for them...
Love: It gets to be magical thinking: If I just do this, this and this, I'll live forever. Well, the goal is not to live forever. The goal is to live as long as you can with the best quality of life. And then drop dead...