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...trying to tweak the show so that it's not simply an hour of stand-up. And I'm trying to add some more elements to it, which I'm working on now - doing something to justify a $30-ticket price. I trust I'll be able to rise to the occasion and put on a good show so people hopefully feel like, "Well, that was fun. I'm glad I drove out here...
...Final Destination, $28.3 million, first weekend 2. Inglourious Basterds, $20 million; $73.8 million, second week 3. Halloween 2, $17.4 million, first weekend 4. District 9, $10.7 million; $90.8 million, third week 5. G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra, $8 million; $132.4 million, fourth week 6. Julie & Julia, $7.4 million; $71 million, fourth week 7. The Time Traveler's Wife, $6.7 million; $48.1 million, third week 8. Shorts, $4.9 million; $13.6 million, second week 9. Taking Woodstock, $3.7 million, first weekend; $3.8 million, first five days 10. G-Force, $2.8 million; $111.8 million, sixth week
...common assumption that the stress of dealing with a recession is bad for your health, studies of population trends in developed economies have revealed that during economic downturns, mortality rates decline rather than increase. This trend is partly the result of a drop in traffic fatalities - perhaps because rising unemployment means fewer people commute to work or because people are trying to save on gas - but also of less easily explained drops in factors such as cardiovascular and liver disease, influenza and pneumonia. In one groundbreaking study in 2000 on the impact of joblessness, for example, Christopher Ruhm, an economist...
...study, tells TIME that recessions have other deleterious social effects not directly related to health and that measuring an economic downturn's overall health impact is a vexed undertaking. "It is true, for instance, that mortality rates reduced significantly during the Great Depression, but that era also saw the rise of fascism, followed by a world war," he says. "So there's no simple way to measure the impact of recessions on a population's welfare." (See pictures of the dangers of printing money in Germany...
...study, for example, found that investment in active labor-market programs like welfare-to-work reduces the effect of unemployment on suicide rates. This link is displayed in Scandinavian countries with strong welfare programs. Finland, for example, saw suicide rates drop steadily between 1990 and 1993 despite a 13% rise in unemployment. Sweden saw a drop in suicides during a recession in 1992. "What we found was that when spending on active labor-market programs exceeded $190 per head per year, rises in unemployment had no adverse effect on suicide rates," Coutts explains. "When you think that governments are spending...