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...Beijing responding? What I take away from this visit is that the Chinese realize their economy is out of skew in terms of currency; that they have to encourage more domestic consumption and discourage some of their wealth going to exports. So now the question for both the American government and the Chinese government is not "if" but "when." That's a major change...
...Droo, 33, twin brothers based in New York City, call themselves Skewville. One of their practices is to rescue discarded metal ventilator grates and carve them with such block-lettered words as FAKE or SKEW. Then they mount their creations on exterior walls where you might expect to find working ventilator grates, hiding their art in plain sight within the urban jungle. The Los Angeles artist Tiki Jay One, 32, has recently begun cementing to whatever surface will hold them 1-ft.-tall concrete sculptures of Polynesian tiki heads. "When I go out, it's a serious operation," he says...
...When you take a one-year skew, it can be very aberrant for a variety of reasons too numerous to mention,” Breimer said...
...survey did not include college students living in dormitories, since Botticelli said doing so “might skew results” that were intended for residents. But college students living outside of institutions were included...
...already rich). But for our purposes, the salient stats are North American revenue. ?Fahrenheit?: just over $119 million. ?The Passion?: just over $370 million - more than three times as much - to rank ninth on the domestic list of all-time money earners. (To be sure, constantly rising ticket prices skew this list. Interestingly, in Box Office Mojo?s ranking of real-dollar all-timers, ?The Passion,? at #51, is only the fifth top-grossing religious epic, following the 1956 ?The Ten Commandments? at #5, the 1959 ?Ben-Hur? at 13, ?The Robe? at 43 and ?The Bells of St. Mary...