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...domestic range - not bad for productions that don't cost much. And they often double their North American gross in foreign markets: Transporter 3 made $32 million here, nearly $70 million abroad. So the low number for Crank: High Voltage will slow Statham's momentum, but it won't kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Report: Zac to the Future! | 4/19/2009 | See Source »

...beat them before, and we were on this streak, we underestimated how strong they were going to come out of play. ”The Crimson found itself in a 14-8 deficit early in the first set. After calling a timeout, Harvard received an offensive spark with kills from junior Erik Kuld and Jones keeping the opening set close at 18-16. But a combination of careless service errors and attack errors made it tough for the Crimson to win over a scrappy Pioneers team that played well on both sides of the ball. With Rutgers-Newark barely hanging...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Fails To Lock Up Outright Title | 4/19/2009 | See Source »

Back in 1973, National Lampoon ran a satirical cover image of a very cute, very worried-looking puppy with a gun pointed at its head. The headline read "If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog" - motivation by emotional blackmail, taken to its absurdist extreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EPA's CO2 Finding: Putting a Gun to Congress's Head | 4/18/2009 | See Source »

...traditionally, animals have been hunted and used without problem for thousands and thousands of years. Native peoples use walruses for food. They build boats out of their hide. And ivory has been a means of income - a bartering tool - for generations. But then there are the people who will kill an entire walrus just for its ivory tucks, and that is illegal. It's not hunting that's the problem, it's the wastefulness and the indiscriminate nature of hunting. [At the same time], hunters are typically the ones who report these problems. Without hunters, you probably wouldn't catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigating Animal Crimes | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...African elephants used to be poached mostly by farmers - an elephant would raid someone's crops and it's a year's worth of work and their entire income, so of course he's going do everything to stop it. But now you have organized gangs that come and kill groups of elephants on purpose for profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigating Animal Crimes | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

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