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...while the former Playboy centerfold may not be witty herself - she's following a script, after all - she does inspire humor in others. "What is your wish, Master?" she says, kneeling before Aladdin. On opening night, a rather bawdy audience member shouted one suggestion (in a theater filled with children, mind you): "Get her to rub yer lamp...
...Sunday figures place Avatar's three-day take at $75 million - an increase from the $73 million total announced this time last weekend, but a shade less than the actual $77 million in the final figures released Monday. So things may still change, depending on how many Sunday tickets Avatar sells. When the three-day tally is complete, the movie may have beaten The Dark Knight for the all-time best gross on a second weekend. It has now taken in $212.3 million in the U.S. and Canada, and another $400 million or so abroad. Worldwide, after just 10 days...
...passengers to collect residue, might have detected the PETN, it's not certain, and many airports lack the machines. "There's always room for improvement in airport security, but it's always going to be a trade-off between convenience and commerce," says Oxley. In the meantime, we may have to count on what worked on Flight 253: luck...
Risky Business Your article "The Mammogram Melee" suggests that it's important to weigh the risks of screening against the benefits, but you never tell us what these risks are [Dec. 7]. Is there evidence that the mammograms may be causing some tumors or damaging tissues? I've been screened fairly regularly for the last 20 years, and now I'm starting to worry that I was doing the wrong thing. Karin Judkins, TURIN, ITALY...
...Serwer's report may have chronicled much of the doom and gloom of the current decade. However, when he lists some of the good news, he has rather conveniently left out the fact that after three decades of hell, Sri Lanka eradicated the menace of terrorism and separatism from its shores. After all, this historic event should have taken precedence over a merely parochial one like the Red Sox World Series victory, which is of absolutely no interest to the rest of the world. Sri Lanka's victory over the terrorist Tamil Tigers surely is a bright spot not only...