Word: leapingly
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...generation that thinks privacy is passé. Send me a friend request? We're friends now. Poke my profile? I'll poke yours back. But using your profile to send you real things I have to pay for with Facebook's alternative currency? That might be the biggest leap of faith yet. (See the top 10 Facebook stories...
Going to the multiplex in January is like taking a Baghdad stroll with the IED squad from The Hurt Locker: there are bombs everywhere, and you're sure to stumble upon at least one. After enduring some of the Inexcusable Entertainment Devices from the first weeks of 2010 - Leap Year, The Spy Next Door, Tooth Fairy - the crap-detecting sense of moviegoers becomes so acute that they may be grateful for a picture that registers between Abysmally Awful and Mildly Mediocre. Such a one would be When in Rome, which is possible to sit through without wanting to stick darts...
...liked to "put the wood on it," as his father recalled. With the game on the line, a running back for Reicher found daylight and made a move to the inside as Chris came up to cut him off. The runner tried to leap over Chris, and it was most likely his hip that smashed into Chris' helmet, snapping his neck back. Chris made a game-saving tackle anyway, but then he lay motionless at the 30-yard line for 20 minutes until an ambulance arrived. His father came on the field and knelt next...
Satyajit Sarna didn't like being a corporate lawyer. So the 24-year old from New Delhi quit his job and instead spent months writing a novel about what he knew best: being a corporate lawyer. A decade ago, a literary leap of faith like Sarna's may not have had much chance for a soft landing. But the Indian economy is growing, and so is its appetite for books. So instead of heading to a courtroom this week, Sarna packed his manuscript and headed south to the Jaipur Literature Festival to look for a new job - as an author...
...Bones, $17.1 million; $17.5 million, sixth weekend 4. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, $11.5 million; $192.6 million, fourth week 5. Sherlock Holmes, $9.8 million; $180 million, fourth weekend 6. The Spy Next Door, $9.7 million, first weekend 7. It's Complicated, $7.7 million; $88.2 million, fourth weekend 8. Leap Year, $5.8 million; $17.5 million, second weekend 9. The Blind Side, $5.6 million; $226.8 million, ninth weekend 10. Up in the Air, $5.5 million; $62.8 million, seventh weekend...