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...take was 63% higher than that of Halloween 2. The teen slasher film cadged $17.4 million and will finish the frame in third place, behind the Nazi-scalping-and strangling Inglourious Basterds. Quentin Tarantino's World War II epic dropped a less-than-expected 47% from last weekend to pull in about $20 million. In 10 days, the polylingual action drama has amassed $73.8 million in the North American market and another $60 million abroad - which, in any language, means boffo. The South African sci-fi thriller District 9 was next with a $10.7 million weekend and a $90.8 million...
...University of Washington School of Public Health suggests the results could be explained by declines in smoking, excessive alcohol consumption and overeating during recessions as people look for ways to save money. What's more, he writes, people have more time for friends and family during times of higher unemployment. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...small town of Cishan in southern Taiwan. When Typhoon Morakot struck the island on Aug. 8, bringing nearly 9 ft. (around 2.5 m) of rain and the island's worst floods in over 50 years, Wu grabbed her 1-year-old son and climbed three hours to higher ground. There, she and hundreds of people from her village waited three stormy days and nights before military helicopters rescued and delivered them - along with thousands of others - to safety in Cishan...
...this, the level of resentment and ire directed at Goldman - from Congress, from competitors, from the media, from the public - has never been higher. Blankfein, only the 11th leader of the 140-year-old firm, is having a tough time understanding...
...policy, whether through his staff, other Senators or his wife Victoria. "He sat down with his staff and Vicki and others, and he said, 'O.K., we're going to get so-and-so to do this, and we're going to work with [Maryland Democratic Senator Barbara] Mikulski on higher education to do that,' and sort of divvied it up. He talked to [Connecticut Democratic Senator] Chris Dodd. He laid it out, he weighed in," Kerry says. "If Teddy was in treatment or doing something, Vicki would relay to me what we needed to get done...