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...Mental Supermen Lock in ESP Duel; Top Psychic's Head Explodes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Late Great Weekly World News | 8/30/2007 | See Source »

...comes Rush Hour 3, with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker reprising their roles as two detectives with clashing personalities and, in previous installments, a lock on the box office. The first movie was a surprise hit, earning $141 million in North America and $244 million worldwide. The sequel upped the domestic take by 60%, the worldwide gross by 42%. Simple arithmetic called for No. 3. And here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jackie Chan Back in Action in Rush Hour 3 | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...Congress finally considered some modest reforms this year, but ultimately watered them down; the reviews aren't really independent, and the Corps can avoid them or ignore them. But the bill does revive the scandalous lock expansions - except they're now up to $2 billion. Senator Christopher Bond of Missouri wants them, and the Corps figured out a new way to approve them, so they're good to go unless Bush can stop them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Setting the Stage for More Katrinas | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...hardest-hit areas include a swath of central China along the Yangtze River in Sichuan, Hubei and Anhui provinces. The Three Gorges Dam on the Upper Yangtze began to release flood water Monday, and boat traffic in the dam's lock was stopped. "The Three Gorges Dam has opened 18 sluices and the water level in the reservoir will continue to rise," a worker told the state-run Xinhua news service. "The safety of the dam will be tested." To the north, the level of the Huai River has begun to drop, but not before causing widespread destruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling the Floods in China | 8/1/2007 | See Source »

...stops making films. Bergman officially retired from movies in the mid-'80s, though he kept directing plays; and he wrote film scripts that were directed by Ullmann, his son Daniel (Sunday's Children) and Bille August (The Best Intentions). But the vogue had passed. He'd had a lock on the high end of popular culture, but by the '80s there was no high end; low was now high. A tribute song by Van Halen, The Seventh Seal ("broken now I can't help but feel / someone cracked the seventh seal / nothing sacred, nothing left unturned / when nothing's simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Ingmar Bergman Mattered | 7/30/2007 | See Source »

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