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...million, fourth week 4. Year One: $20.2 million, first weekend 5. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: $11.3 million; $43.3 million, second week 6. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: $7.3 million; $156 million, fifth week 7. Star Trek: $4.7 million; $239.4 million, seventh week 8. Land of the Lost: $4 million; $43.7 million, third week 9. Imagine That: $3.1 million; $11.4 million, second week 10. Terminator Salvation: $3.1 million; $119.5 million, second week...
...Carpenter has raised (and slaughtered) chickens, ducks, geese, goats and even pigs in what was formerly a garbage-strewn lot next to her home. She recently published a memoir, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, and spoke with TIME about her unlikely adventure in living off the land...
...love the ideals of my parents - going back to the land to grow their own food and raise children. The problem is that rural areas can be very lonely, isolating places. There's not necessarily a sense of community. In the city, people all have different backgrounds and they can share that information and wisdom. The owner of a liquor store down the street used to be a goat farmer in Yemen; I can run down and say, "Hey, does my goat look okay...
According to assistance agencies, Iraqi refugees across the country - some of whom, like the Jabers, risked violence, kidnapping and death threats for assisting U.S. forces - face the danger of homelessness in their adopted land, a threat heightened by the foundering economy. The government's refugee-assistance system as it exists is in crisis, and it's failing to meet its basic mandate to protect and serve refugees, said Robert Carey, vice president of resettlement policy at the International Rescue Committee (IRC), which assists Iraqis and other refugees resettle in the U.S. A new report co-sponsored...
...that collision of big guns and bad ideas weren't enough, lawlessness on land has spurred more of it at sea, making Somalia not only the world's most failed state and the home of its worst humanitarian crisis but also a center of piracy. The geo-strategic elements of this enduring catastrophe explain why it is watched blow by blow by both the U.S. and al-Qaeda...