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Perhaps Belinda Luscombe needs to expand her parameters a bit on what is considered a "romantic movie" before declaring the genre a lost art [Aug. 20]. In 2005 an acclaimed and beloved film was released detailing a heartbreaking love story. It earned $170 million worldwide, was nominated for eight Oscars and won three. That film was Brokeback Mountain. I was surprised that neither it nor The Notebook rated a mention, as those films are the two highest-grossing romantic dramas of the past several years...
Facebook has taken steps this year to expand its functionality by allowing outside developers to create applications that integrate with its pages, which brings with it expanded opportunities for abuse. (No doubt Griffith is hard at work on FacebookScanner.) But it has also hung on doggedly to its core insight: that the most important function of a social network is connecting people and that its second most important function is keeping them apart...
...once again, the big questions that trail Obama everywhere are at work in the Cuba offering: is he taking on many of the established rules about presidential campaigns, and as a result, is doomed to come up short? Or can he expand the party with his embrace of change on so many fronts that those conventions are overturned...
Ling says that she and her colleagues plan to expand their research in future studies to other cultures - not only British and Chinese - and age groups, including infants, to further test the nature-versus-nurture concept...
...global giants such as Citibank as it is for your local mortgage broker. Clearly, that has consequences for growth. Everyone knows the U.S. housing market continues to plummet, but the rise in interest rates that we've seen lately will crimp growth - reducing investment globally. Fewer businesses will expand, start up or open new factories - and that will pinch profits going forward, which, in turn, will crimp investments in new businesses or factories even more...