Word: seconded
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...unrelenting drumbeat of bad news confirms what many have sensed for some time. First, the globe is being cursed with more natural calamities than before. Second, the distribution of disaster is unequal. A U.N. report released in May studied natural disasters between 1975 and 2007 and found not only that the frequency of catastrophe is increasing because of climate change, unsafe cities and environmental degradation, but also that the brunt of tragedy is borne by poor countries least equipped to deal with such misfortune. In 2008, 98% of natural disaster - related fatalities occurred in Asia, according to the Worldwatch Institute...
...last year, the top spot went to Where the Wild Things Are, which set an opening-day record for a live-action PG film and, according to early studio reports, will end the session with $32.5 million. The serial-killer thriller Law Abiding Citizen slashed its way to second place, with $21 million, while the haunted-house horror movie Paranormal Activity underlined its phenomenon status by earning $20.2 million on 760 screens - a sensational $26,000 per theater. (See TIME's weekend entertainment recommendations...
...Where the Wild Things Are, $32.5 million, first weekend 2. Law Abiding Citizen, $21 million, first weekend 3. Paranormal Activity, $20.2 million; $33.7 million, fourth week 4. Couples Retreat, $18 million; $63.3 million, second week 5. The Stepfather, $12.3 million, first weekend 6. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, $8.1 million; $108.3 million, fifth week 7. Zombieland, $7.8 million; $60.8 million, third week 8. Toy Story 3-D and Toy Story 2 3-D, $3 million; $28.6 million, third week 9. Surrogates, $1.9 million; $36.3 million, fourth week 10. The Invention of Lying, $1.9 million; $ 15.5 million, third week
...Democrats who helped negotiate the Capps compromise, according to one person who was involved, felt confident it would "help clear the way for the bishops to support" the House health-reform bill. But just a few weeks after Rigali's initial letter, the Cardinal on Aug. 11 sent a second letter to members of Congress that raised a new concern: "Funds paid into these plans are fungible, and federal-taxpayer funds will subsidize the operating budget and provider networks that expand access to abortion...
...stance has been twofold: feelings of frustration that the bishops hadn't been negotiating in good faith, and a broader confusion over where the bishops actually stood. The confusion appears to have been particularly pervasive at the White House. On Sept. 8, a few weeks after the second Rigali letter, senior Obama officials convened a meeting in the Roosevelt Room that included Nancy-Ann DeParle, the Administration's lead health-care official, Joshua DuBois, head of the White House faith-based office, and John Carr, executive director of the USCCB's Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development. Both sides...