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...jolt of high-octane gas - or should we say Diesel? Vin Diesel, who a few years back was a fan favorite as the thug-hero of The Chronicles of Riddick and xXx, returned to glory as the stolid stud behind the wheel and helped drive his new vehicle to record-breaking numbers. Earning an estimated $72.5 million in its first three days, F&F had the biggest opening not only of any 2009 film but also of any movie released in the normally somnolent month of April. (Previous top dog of the cruelest month: the Adam Sandler-Jack Nicholson Anger...
...Harvard women’s tennis team played its best tennis of the season over the weekend. The Crimson (9-7, 2-0 Ivy) emphatically defeated Columbia (4-11, 0-3) 6-1 on Friday and blanked Cornell (6-10, 2-1) 7-0 on Saturday to boost its record in the past month to 7-2.“I think we are playing the best at this moment,” sophomore Samantha Rosekrans said. “Our goal has been to be the most improved Ivy League team, and thus far I think we?...
...NASA had such a dismal track record since the Apollo program? Reduced funding tells part of the story. The space program received around $40 billion a year (adjusted for inflation) in the mid-1960s, which was at least four percent of the federal budget. But, back then, Americans also had a much greater tolerance for risk: The first successful Apollo mission was launched just eight months after the three astronauts in Apollo 1 died during testing. NASA’s tighter leash today means that riskier programs like nuclear-powered spacecraft don’t make it off the drawing...
...know that far fewer people will die from cigarettes because of it than are dying now. Past tax hikes have showed that smoking is price sensitive: Fewer kids start smoking and more smokers quit with each increase in the cost of a pack. Government "quit lines" got record numbers of calls on April 1, the day the current tax took effect. Restaurant smoking bans have also helped; so have ad campaigns about the dangers of smoking. Finding any and every way to deter and defeat the habit - including outlawing cigarettes and levying fines (no, not jail terms) for possession - would...
...problem is less than complete. Though the dismissal figures of French police officers accused of brutality are remarkably low in relation to the total number of complaints, Amnesty says getting similar data from other countries is just as difficult as in France - making it impossible to compare that French record with other nations. But "even if there were comparative reports, we'd contest the conclusions drawn in this one as woefully incorrect," says Dider...