Word: haven
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...Audiences still haven't shaken The Hangover, which had been the box-office champ the previous two weeks. The drugged-and-toothless-in-Vegas farce saw its weekend take drop 18%, but having earned $152.9 million at the domestic wickets, this guy movie has already passed the global theatrical gross of the last huge R-rated comedy, Sex and the City (girl movie...
...star is - and here's where industry analysts do spit-takes with their Evian - Sandra Bullock. Every once in a while, every blue moon, audiences want to be reminded of why they made someone a star in the first place. They like Bullock, they really like her; they just haven't seen any reason to go to her movies. The advertising for The Proposal gave them that excuse: it played on both cutting a successful woman down to her co-star's size and allowing Bullock to flash her trademark poop-eating grimace, the signal of a working-class...
...been amazing. I keep thinking that the PETA people are going to come kick my butt, but they haven't so far. I think they realize that doing what I do would probably reduce people's meat consumption. If people are going to raise their own meat and kill it, they're going to see it shouldn't just be a casual dalliance. It should be pretty special...
...FlyBy is back for the summer! Sporadically, that is. We don't have as many people, so it's hard to keep up, ya know? We'll try to keep you intermittently entertained as you're chained to that desk, and figure we haven't hit it big enough yet to be blocked by your I-bank's servers. Also, we don't have real jobs, that pay, like, enough money to eat at Qdoba every day...soooo we have really nothing else...
...India's existing laws on child labor haven't been effective for a mixture of legal and cultural reasons. The Child Labor Act prohibits any child below the age of 14 to be employed as a domestic help or in eateries, carrying a punishment for employers of up to 3 months of imprisonment and a fine of about $200, or both. The legislation, however, is in conflict with the older Juvenile Justice Act, which is also applicable in prosecution of child labor cases, but defines children as under 18. The conflicting ages make prosecution a cumbersome process, and the pervasive...