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...teen girls continued their profitable prowl through the multiplexes, as The Twilight Saga: New Moon was No. 1 for the long holiday weekend. The second film in the Twilight quartet racked up $42.5 million for the usual Friday-to-Sunday frame and $66 million during the five-day Thanksgiving span. The Stephenie Meyer phenomenon has now taken in $230.7 million in North American theaters, according to studio estimates. That makes it, after just 10 days, the sixth highest-grossing movie of 2009. New Moon has amassed even more abroad, $243 million, which suggests it will cross the half-billion-dollar...
...Within the first four minutes, we pushed the lead up to about fifteen, and from there it was just maintaining the lead, playing hard on defense, hitting our shots,” said Magnarelli, who scored six points in a four-minute span early in the second half to help Harvard build its lead...
...pivotal moment that best epitomized the Crimson’s desire to attack came in the second period, when Harvard “responded” three times in a span of two minutes...
...Tigers scored twice in a seven-second span, first finding the net off a power play and again after they won the resulting faceoff...
Unlike CO2, which can hang around in the atmosphere for centuries - CO2 that was emitted by the first coal-powered train is probably still in the air, warming the planet - black carbon has a relatively brief life span. It remains just a few weeks in the air before it falls to earth. That's key, because if the world could reduce black carbon emissions soon, it could help blunt warming almost instantly. "You can wait a week or a month and the totals in the atmosphere can be significantly different," says Eric Wilcox, an atmospheric scientist with NASA. Meanwhile...