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...help revamp Libya's economy if Tripoli dropped its nukes program. So far, interest has fallen far short of that. Libyans were also outraged when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security added the country to a security watch list after the attempted bombing of a plane over Detroit last December. "We extended a friendly hand and got slapped in the face," Gebril says...
...recent, but the other items could be the recipe for any of the DreamWorks films that have entertained vast audiences over the past decade. The studio's three Shrek movies have earned $2.2 billion at the worldwide box office. Include the last seven capers made at its California headquarters - Shark Tale, Madagascar and its sequel, Over the Hedge, Bee Movie, Kung Fu Panda and Monsters vs Aliens - and the 10-pack has a $5.3 billion global gross. That's just a smidge under the $5.6 billion taken in by all 10 of the features produced by DreamWorks' rival, Pixar...
High-profile books like last year's No Impact Man, which details one New Yorker's attempt to spend a year without having a negative impact on the environment, may be particularly popular now because of the Great Recession. It is no longer fashionable to flash bling. Today's monklike experimenters are flaunting what they don't have. (See how Americans are spending...
...which makes you wonder whether the government should have just sent an e-mail instead of a packet that looks like junk mail. (How about spending a little more money on design?) But the Census officials worried about privacy, so the increasingly irrelevant post office, whose volume dropped 13% last year, gets a spring boost...
...what heaven might be. For some, it's "a place that embodies the best of everything" and is full of "green, green pastures," while for others it is simply "the home of God." Naturally, Miller doesn't come to a neat conclusion about what to expect when our last breath arrives. But she does offer a lot of faith for thought in this thorough and intelligent look at life after death...