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...desperate "Hello" to whatever is left of our world. This is your Box-Office Weekend correspondent, trying to communicate from Sint Maarten/Saint Marten, the half-Dutch, half-French Caribbean island. Coming here to escape the cataclysm foretold in the top new movie, 2012, backfired. The seas did not rise to swallow up the island, but my laptop did go kaput. Will my report get out via fax or iPhone? If you're reading this, the answer is yes. If not, then 2012 may have arrived three years early...
...actually already occurred), or whether the social metamorphosis was the catalyst (get it?) for the academic one, but either way, by the time Sophomore spring rolled around, I re-emerged as an Ec10 butterfly, and shed my outdated, dried-up, Chemistry cocoon. Goodbye, goggle marks, goodbye problem sets. Hello, going out on Thursday nights, hello, learning-how-to-flirt...
...gentle lament, because the Earhart brought to the screen by Nair and Swank is a gracious lady, magnanimous and humble. She quotes Carl Sandburg, takes care to enthusiastically greet the little people while making history - "Well, hello, sheep!" she says, descending from the cockpit in an Irish meadow - and, above all, beams beatifically at the world at large. (See the top 10 biopics of all time...
...Bill Voss, president of the Flight Safety Foundation, a nonprofit group working to lower aviation accidents, says modern aircraft give flight crews very little to do during the straight-and-level portions of flight. "The aircraft is on autopilot, the flight plan's programmed in, one pilot says hello and goodbye to a controller every 10 to 15 minutes, and there's not a lot else going on," says Voss, who added that the crew's claim to be talking as they overflew Minneapolis "doesn't seem very credible." U.S. airlines should consider allowing a technique common in some parts...
...Bond is the only brand leader to have remained in the top spot over the years. An intelligence officer once told me that in the depths of the Third World he met a tribal leader whom he thought knew no English but who addressed him with the famous phrase "Hello, Mr. Bond." (See pictures of James Bond...