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...awarded Bradshaw the seat, in one of the biggest swings away from the Conservatives in the country that year. "He tried to use my sexuality as a political weapon and that blew up in his face," says Bradshaw, now the U.K.'s Minister of Culture. "That election was a huge sea change in our politics. Since then we've been in a new world...
Those three films can give themselves back-pats, but they still huddle in the huge shadow of Avatar. And it may take a while for a new release to dethrone Cameron's picture over an entire weekend. It slipped only 18% from last weekend's take, and tomorrow it's likely to cross the $500-million mark at the domestic box office. Next weekend it should pass The Dark Knight ($533.3 million domestic), leaving Cameron just one more barrier - his own Titanic - between Avatar and the all-time box office record. (The usual advisory: as ticket prices keep rising, inflation...
...recession, has typically grown about 3% per year since the 1970s. Countries with malaria, by contrast, lose 1.3% of that potential growth - nearly half - just to the consequences of the disease, according to a study by leading global economist Jeffrey Sachs. "It's like a huge tax on economic growth," says Hall...
...short, says Field, "we've got a huge number of studies that have given us important insights about how plants will respond to climate change." But there's even more he and his colleagues don't know yet. And that means that any straightforward conclusion about whether climate change is good or bad for plants is by definition extremely premature...
...Federal Government currently pays about 57% of all Medicaid costs, with the rest shouldered by states. But under reform, the Federal Government would eventually pay 82% to 95% of Medicaid costs for the 15 million people who would become newly eligible. At that point, the result would be a huge public insurance program funded mostly by the Federal Government. By contrast, the public option - which exists in the current House bill but seems headed for a quiet death because of moderate Democrats' concerns that it would lead to socialized medicine - would have included no federal funding of benefits. Some health...