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...backbreaker has been DVD sales, where many films now derive most of their profit. Moviemakers are so beholden to retailers like Wal-Mart and Best Buy that studio execs routinely confer with them before setting release dates. There are so many new releases that retailers afford each a much shorter shelf life. And with 80% of U.S. households owning DVD players, fewer people are rushing out to replace their old tapes--slowing DVD sales. Those shifts have made forecasting sales difficult and, Geffen says, "sort of blindsided us," helping lead to what has come to be known as the Shrek...
...insecurity and self-doubt. Maybe it's her well-known history as a onetime careerless divorced mom who spent nearly a year on public assistance, but she still constantly questions her writing, reviewing it like a boxer watching tapes of his fights. "I think Phoenix could have been shorter. I knew that, and I ran out of time and energy toward the end," she says. She is worried that Goblet was overpraised. "In every single book, there's stuff I would go back and rewrite," she says. "But I think I really planned the hell out of this...
...flight engineer and twelve cabin attendants. There were 509 passengers aboard the 747SR, a short-range version of the jumbo. JAL and All Nippon Airways are the only airlines that fly this model, which is structurally strengthened to absorb the jolts of the frequent takeoffs and landings required by shorter routes. As part of its fleet of 49 747s, the largest of any carrier in the world, JAL operated ten of the short-range types, which can accommodate more seats. The flight to Osaka (pop. 2,625,000), a commercial center 250 miles southwest of Tokyo, was sold...
Such aid is in somewhat shorter supply. The U.S. Government, which provides about $15 billion in student help, has begun to back off. Since 1981, allowing for inflation, total federal college-student support has dropped about 10%. One result is that some minority students are steering away from the elite colleges. Princeton, for example, is seeing a falloff in black enrollments, from 345 in 1980 to an estimated 316 this year, a trend that may be spreading to other select colleges. "With grant money frozen and tuitions going up," says Reginald Wilson of the American Council on Education in Washington...
Back when Berry was the favorite receiver of Johnny Unitas and just about everyone else, his attention to minute detail was as much a part of his lore as the one leg shorter than the other or the feeble vision and sensitivity to light that sometimes required him to wear the only football helmet ever equipped with sunglasses. On the road, Berry actually carried his own bathroom scale to be sure of a consistent reading. If he played best at 182 lbs., he did not intend to be 181 or 183. Unitas still marvels at the diving catches Berry insisted...