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Valentine?s Day won the full four-day weekend, taking in a record $66.9 million, according to Box Office Mojo. Percy Jackson held second with $38.8 million; The Wolfman was third with $36.5 million. Avatar held strong in fourth, slipping only 2% from last weekend for $30 million. The James Cameron eco-epic has now earned $667.6 million, the all-time leader in current dollars and, in real dollars, is now 17th on the all-time list, between two Steven Spielberg adventures: Raiders of the Lost Ark and Jurassic Park...
...Valentine's Day, $52.4 million, first weekend 2. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, $31.2 million, first weekend 3. The Wolfman, $30.6 million, first weekend 4. Avatar, $22 million; $639.6 million, ninth weekend 5. Dear John, $15.3 million; $53.2 million, second week 6. Tooth Fairy, $5.6 million; $41.5 million, fourth week 7. From Paris With Love, $4.7 million; $15.9 million, second week 8. Edge of Darkness, $4.6 million; $36.1 million, third week 9. Crazy Heart, $4 million; $16.5 million, ninth weekend 10. When in Rome, $3.4 million; $26 million, third week...
...Jens Moberg, the head of Better Place Denmark, says the company is aiming to have the first cars on the road in Denmark by the second half of 2011. Within one year, he expects the number of vehicles to be "in the thousands," and by 2020, he believes there will be more electric cars sold in Denmark than combustion-engine cars. "We've managed our business in a responsible way and the Danish government has said we want to support this," he tells TIME. But he knows there's also an inherent risk in being first, particularly when it involves...
...reasons. First, its occurrence just hours before the opening ceremony created a somber and painful situation: A man had just lost his life preparing for a multibillion-dollar sporting spectacle, yet participants were obliged to sing, dance and play their fiddles in celebration of it. Let the games begin! Second, while the Beijing murder was a terrible tragedy, it was a random act of violence. On Friday, an athlete was killed pursuing what Olympic officials sell as the epitome of purity: Go faster, go higher...
...prove how seriously he takes the issue, Jonathan's second action (after sacking the justice minister, who had campaigned most noisily against his promotion) was to call a meeting with the oil majors in Nigeria. The peace process was his top priority, he told executives from Chevron, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell. The rebels have already responded. On Feb. 12, MEND commander Mack Anthony told TIME he had declared a new 90-day ceasefire...