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...Mummy 3, Step Brothers and Mamma Mia!) grossed more than the top 10 this weekend. The studios front-loaded their prime merchandise, and now the shelves are getting bare. Note to moguls: Summer usually lasts three months, whenever you decide it begins. So if you launch your blockbuster season on May 1, don't be surprised if it ends on Aug. 1 - right now. This defies business logic, since in most parts of the country, school's out and kids have nothing to do but see movies for another five weeks. It's as if Hollywood has programmed its summer...
Hurricane season is two months old and not a single named storm has popped onto the radar. If that makes people complacent, it only makes weather watchers worry even more about what is to come. Officials and insurers are concerned about the ramifications of a "Big One," and Florida, the most ravaged of states, is looking at several novel approaches to riding out the storms - or even preventing them altogether. (Read a story about whether Florida can survive...
...fought even harder as an executive producer of Freaks and Geeks, the critically acclaimed high school series created by his friend Paul Feig, which lasted only one season. When Apatow's next show, the sitcom Undeclared, was canceled, he sent a messenger to the Fox executive responsible - the same guy who canceled The Ben Stiller Show - with a copy of a positive review from TIME and a note expressing his disbelief in extremely graphic terms...
World health officials are carefully watching the H1N1/09 swine-flu virus as it makes its way through the Southern Hemisphere, which is currently in the thick of its flu season. They are particularly interested in seeing how severely the virus affects infected people in parts of Africa, South America and Australia, since their illnesses could be a good predictor of how aggressive the virus will be when flu season returns to the rest of the world in the fall...
Since France's summer vacation season kicked off in early July, the French press has repeatedly sounded the alarm over the shrinking number of topless women on the nation's beaches. As eagle-eyed reporters have made quite clear, the prevailing trend among sun-loving women these days is to use both pieces of their bikini. Le Monokini, C'est Fini! , shouted Le Parisien in its report from a Mediterranean beach. "Nude Breasts Are Less Trendy" concurred free daily Metro France. "The practice has become common, and therefore less compelling as a fashion," says sociologist Jean-Claude Kaufmann. "When...