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...four Hollywood-based movies after Rush Hour 2, plus three starring roles in Hong Kong films, but they didn't do much business, and one, Around the World in 80 Days, cost $110 million to produce and took in far less than half that. After 53 years on this planet, 30 as the hardest working star on any continent, with virtually every bone in his body broken while performing his daredevil stunts, Chan may have worn out not his welcome so much as himself...
...Germany were hit by spells of torrential rain exceeding any in more than a century. The WMO, a branch of the U.N., says the global average for land-surface temperatures in January and April were likely the warmest since records began 127 years ago. Parts of the planet that have been spared weather-related misery may not be lucky for long. The Intergovernmental Group on Climate Change says it's "very likely" that heat waves and heavy precipitation will occur with increasing frequency in years to come...
...billion people around the world lack safe drinking water, a number that could reach 5 billion by 2025. Very few of them live in the U.S., however. Turn on a tap almost anywhere in America, and you'll get clean, safe water--a minor miracle on much of the planet. But you wouldn't know that from the giant plastic bottles of water that many of us haul around as if preparing for a stroll in the Sahara. Americans drank more than 8.25 billion gal. (more than 31 billion L) of bottled water in 2006, a 9.5% increase from...
Heston appears as though “he comes from another planet,” Blitz says, “but I believe that all of the characters are pushed. Ginny is pushed to feel like she’s unreal in her ambition and she’s hyper-articulate [in a way] that’s unreal...
...list of beneficiaries is small--climbing to 15 this month--but it includes some of the most prestigious schools on the planet: Harvard, Caltech, MIT, Cambridge. And the number of research fields the institutes address is even smaller. Universities can get the $7.5 million gifts only if the funding goes to one of three areas: astrophysics, nanoscience or neuroscience. Why this particular trio? Because that's what Kavli happens to be interested in. "The way he sometimes puts it," says David Gross, a Nobel prizewinner in physics and director of the first Kavli Institute, at the University of California...