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...couple of franchises: Transporter (three films) and Crank (two; but if the grosses stay this stagnant, don't count on a third). He's manfully filled the B-movie action slots once occupied by Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal. His movies generally pull first-weekend numbers in the teen-millions and end up in the $25-40 million domestic range - not bad for productions that don't cost much. And they often double their North American gross in foreign markets: Transporter 3 made $32 million here, nearly $70 million abroad. So the low number for Crank: High Voltage...
...Auctions only work for shoppers if they do a little research. Consumers need to know the price of a given item in the local grocery store, and discipline themselves not to bid above that number. Such self-restraint is no easy task. "We joke all time about the Little Debbies," says Chris Crepeau, owner of Michigan Auction Sales in Holt, Mich. "People always want those specific snack cakes, and pay too much for them." The auction process sweeps up some shoppers - I just want to win, darn it, no matter how much I pay for that dog food. Others figure...
...defense, and ripped a close range shot past Harrison. Smith’s score, his second of the season, ignited a 4-0 spurt that iced the game for the Crimson. In the fourth period, senior midfielder Nick Sapia tallied his first goal of the game, and Cohen notched number four and five for the game to complete the run. Cohen’s fifth goal, scored with 9:21 left in the contest, came after playing possum with the Crusader defense. Holding the ball behind the Holy Cross goal, Cohen waited until a defender would come out to challenge...
Going all-in? Not likely, if you gamble online. A recent study conducted by the Harvard Medical School Division on Addictions suggests that the widespread availability of Internet gambling has not led to an increase in the number of people addicted to gambling. The study actually found that gamblers who visit gaming Web sites are more likely to self-regulate their betting behavior based on their pattern of wins and losses. Those who are addicted to gambling do not exhibit such control. The study began in February 2005 and observed 3,445 subscribers to BWIN, an Austria-based gaming...
...fitting given that appallingly lax state oversight earlier in the decade allowed just about any crook to become a mortgage broker. Five people were busted in Miami on Thursday in a $4.5 million straw buyer scam. Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum this month filed a civil lawsuit against a number of alleged loan-modification scam artists on behalf of scores if not hundreds of people, most of them facing foreclosure, who claim they paid upfront fees as high as $3,000 to have their mortgage terms improved so they could keep their homes. The suit alleges those services, which numerous...