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Meatballs thus becomes the year's seventh film and its first animated feature to spend two weekends at the top of the box office. None of the other repeaters - Paul Blart: Mall Cop in January, Madea Goes to Jail in February and, over the big summer season, Night at the Museum 2, The Hangover, Transformers 2 and Final Destination 4 - are likely to earn a slot on the newly expanded, 10-title list of Oscar nominations for Best Picture. Nor did any of them except The Hangover earn money-quote lines from the critical establishment. But they underline the importance...
...that the economy has unfurled and people are realizing that prices don't always go up, houses are getting smaller - and more practical. Instead of feeding the desire for flash, architects and homebuilders are responding to how families actually spend time and use space, as well as to new buyers entering the market. "A house is back to being a house," says Stephen Moore, a senior partner of the architecture and planning firm BSB Design in Des Moines, Iowa. (See high-end homes that won't sell...
...whole messy brood welcomes her--"She's one of us now! Lemme see the little pot sticker!" Jay declares--it's a perfect ending for a promising pilot. That's what family means: the second you join, it's as if they've known you forever. Then you spend the rest of your lives surprising one another...
...couldn't relate to. "It wasn't really working for me," he says. He left the center to try a wilderness adventure program in the Utah desert (which didn't help either), until his parents discovered ReSTART, where, for $15,500 (including application, screening and treatment fees), "guests" could spend 45 days cut off from the computer, integrated into a real family's home with chores, daily counseling sessions and weekly therapy. (See the top 10 E3 announcements...
...matters of business and finance, Westerwelle is far from sharing France's passion for government meddling. Indeed, his calls for German tax cuts and fiscal restraint to bring down the budget deficit is diametrically opposed to Sarkozy's plans to spend his way out of the crisis with a new gigantic government-bond issue. Still, when it comes to Germany's relationship with France, Joannin of the Robert Schumann Foundation points out that the Chancellery rather than the Foreign Ministry usually calls the shots. (Read: "Guido Westerwelle: Angela Merkel's Unlikely Partner...