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...Solo and Groucho Marx enticed audiences to the box office in bad times, but they didn't have to compete with hundreds of cable channels and home theater systems as unspeakably powerful as the Death Star, did they? "That makes it a little harder to predict," concedes Dergarabedian. "But I still think the recession will have a negligible effect. If anything, you might see people cutting back on concessions." That's what belt-tightening looks like in the America in 2008 - popcorn movies without popcorn...
However, the University of California panel’s proposal stated that the SAT II “contributes very little to UC’s ability to predict which applicants will perform well initially...
...practical effects of climate change are notoriously difficult to predict on the regional level, and many experts criticize the Scripps study for failing to take into account improved water-management policies that could keep the lake wet well into the future. But it is as clear as those chalky white bathtub rings that Mead and the Colorado River are getting lower, and that could leave the states along the basin--whose populations grew 10% from 2000 to 2006, compared with the U.S. average of 5.6%--high and dry. "We don't think this is a regular drought," says Scott Huntley...
...elections. (Candidates loosely allied with the coalition have captured 70 seats in the new parliament.) They also believe he has the support of some of the country's most influential clerics. He spoke with TIME's Nahid Siamdoust in Tehran as the election results were coming in. Pressed to predict whether his "taste" or Ahmadinejad's would triumph in future Iranian elections, Qalibaf simply says, "That the people will decide." Excerpts from the interview...
...Crimson’s blistering streak has propelled the team back into NCAA Tournament discussion, albeit very much as a bubble team. Harvard is currently in a tie for 16th in USCHO.com’s PairWise Rankings (PWR), a system that tries to predict teams’ potential to make it to the Dance. Although 16 teams will be selected for the Tournament, at least two automatic bids will be doled out to teams that currently stand outside of the PWR’s top 16, leaving the Crimson on the outside looking in. While it?...