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...these films trailed Alice in Wonderland, whose $34.5 million made it the box-office champ for a third straight week. The fanciful collaboration of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp has earned $265 million in North America and an additional $300 million abroad to become the biggest worldwide hit since Avatar, which is still in the top 10 after 14 weeks. (See James Cameron's special effects...
Here are the weekend's top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo.com...
Mourad Mwafi has been in charge of North Sinai, Egypt's eastern frontier governorate, for only the past 2½ months. But the broad-shouldered official is comfortable in his new role. He knows the turf well - the northern half of Egypt's arid Sinai Peninsula - and is well aware of its challenges. As a military general and former chief of Egyptian military intelligence, he's already well acquainted with his friends and foes in the region. (Watch a video on the tunnel smugglers of the Gaza Strip...
...effect in 1994, it has drawn Mexico ever more tightly to the U.S. and Canada. That's been especially true under Calderón's more conservative National Action Party (PAN), which has ruled Mexico since 2000 and whose voter base resides in the country's more U.S.-friendly north. And then, perhaps most important, Mexico for the past decade has been waging an increasingly horrific war against its drug cartels, whose narcoinsurgency has afforded the government little time and energy to deal with coups in Central America or human-rights violations in Cuba...
...Austin also offers a model of hope. The city's surfeit of computer-programming talent allowed a video-game outfit to hire 50 developers and designers in the past two months. A manufacturer is building a new plant north of town to take advantage of the growing commercial-lighting industry even as its construction-related business falls off. A pharmaceuticals start-up is looking for new lab workers. Some companies are expanding, and others - markers of the city's entrepreneurial spirit - are starting from scratch. Austin is emerging as one of the first pockets of the country where people...