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...Ethan Hawke and Richard Gere, snagged a better-than-expected $13.5 million for second place, two notches above another Kings County policier, Cop Out. Martin Scorsese's Shelter Island took third place and is nearing the $100 million mark. In other milestones, Sandra Bullock's sports inspirational The Blind Side broke $250 million; Valentine's Day topped $100 million; and Dear John and Percy Jackson hit $75 million. Jeff Bridges' Crazy Heart, the one "indie" drama to reap box-office benefits from Oscar buzz, stayed in the top 10 and is grazing $30 million - not bad for a movie with...
...Avatar, $720.2 million, $2.559 billion 2. Up. $293 million, $723 million 3. Inglourious Basterds, $120.5 million, $313.6 million 4. District 9, $115.6 million, $304.8 million 5. The Blind Side, $250.5 million, $251 million 6. Up in the Air, $83 million, $153.5 million 7. Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, $47.4 million. $53.3 million 8. A Serious Man, $9.2 million, $24.2 million 9. The Hurt Locker, $14.7 million, $21.4 million 10. An Education, $12.1 million, $17.1 million...
...from informers and Israeli assassinations. One of them, "Khaled", comes to a telling realization: "Okay, I hate the Jews but I can live with them." As Sacco tells TIME, "This was a strange and almost hopeful moment - that people who didn't like each other could still live side by side." Most of all, says Sacco, "You meet many people who aren't caught up in rage and anger, they just want a normal life." And it is these ordinary people of Gaza - teachers, merchants and family men - all trying to survive in the midst of the lopsided battle between...
...face different political challenges. "When the baton is passed to you, you have to run the race of the moment," says Bill Perkins, a state senator who represents pockets of Harlem that are heavily African American, the Hispanic stronghold of East Harlem and parts of the affluent Upper West Side. Titans like Sutton and Rangel, he says, "were the trailblazers. They were the first. My run is different. I'm blazing the trail of a Harlem district that is not just black - it's more multicultural, multiracial. The idea is to bridge those barriers...
...Because of the hydropower projects on its side of the border, China frequently gets the blame for water shortages downstream. Indeed, Vietnam's neighbor has been on an aggressive campaign to damn the Mekong River, which begins on the Tibetan plateau and travels through five other countries before it empties into the South China Sea. According to the Mekong River Commission, a regional advisory agency, China has built or is planning to build eight dams along the Mekong. But while dams raise huge concerns about interfering with sediment flow and fish migration, they can also have a positive impact, says...