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...Play, $14.1 million, first weekend 3. Monsters vs. Aliens, $12.9 million; $162.7 million in 24 days 4. Hannah Montana: The Movie, $12.7 million; $56.1 million in 10 days 5. Fast & Furious, $12.3 million; $136.7 million in 17 days 6. Crank: High Voltage, $6.5 million, first weekend 7. Observe and Report, $4.1 million; $18.7 million in 10 days 8. Knowing, $3.5 million; $73.7 million in 31 days 9. I Love You, Man, $3.4 million; $64.7 million in 31 days 10. The Haunting in Connecticut, $3.2 million; $51.9 million in 24 days
...whole, however, the auction houses report that shoppers are saving. The deals vary by product, but Crepeau says his customers are paying 25-50% less than they would in the supermarkets. Crepeau has been running monthly grocery auctions for two years; over the past couple of months, attendance has doubled. "We have a lot of laid-off people around here," says Crepeau. "They need ways to save a buck...
...result, doubly disgusted reports from abroad frequently contained condemnations similar to the Times of London's description of Sarkozy as a "bitchy little princess". Spain's ABC said Sarkozy's behavior confirmed frequent complaints in France that his "superiority complex has no limits." By midday Friday, the global coverage of Libération's report had come full circle, with French media like the daily Le Monde running stories about "The Arrogant Sarkozy Fingered By the International Press...
Ever since a civil war brought down Somalia's last functional government in 1991, the country's 3,330 km (2,000 miles) of coastline - the longest in continental Africa - has been pillaged by foreign vessels. A United Nations report in 2006 said that, in the absence of the country's at one time serviceable coastguard, Somali waters have become the site of an international "free for all," with fishing fleets from around the world illegally plundering Somali stocks and freezing out the country's own rudimentarily-equipped fishermen. According to another U.N. report, an estimated $300 million worth...
Beyond illegal fishing, foreign ships have also long been accused by local fishermen of dumping toxic and nuclear waste off Somalia's shores. A 2005 United Nations Environmental Program report cited uranium radioactive and other hazardous deposits leading to a rash of respiratory ailments and skin diseases breaking out in villages along the Somali coast. According to the U.N., at the time of the report, it cost $2.50 per ton for a European company to dump these types of materials off the Horn of Africa, as opposed to $250 per ton to dispose of them cleanly in Europe...