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Avatar has now beaten, crushed, spindled and mutilated the competition for four weekends in a row, the first movie to do so since The Dark Knight in the summer of 2008. This week it will also become the first Hollywood feature film to top $100 million worldwide in specialized IMAX theaters - which charge more per ticket, as do the 3-D showings in regular theaters, and help boost Avatar's overall numbers. Out for just 24 days, the movie has earned an astounding $429 million on domestic screens, which means it dethroned Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen...
...Wine and Cheese and Travel Workshop," which will help prospective travelers plan their vacations, is set to take place on Jan. 26 at the Harvard Book Store. In addition, Let’s Go, OCS, OIP and STA Travel have teamed up to organize a “Summer Travel Opportunities Kickoff” information session that will take place on Feb. 4 in Ticknor Lounge...
...worked on the midrange jumper a lot this summer,” Wright said. “It’s all paying...
...warheads, down from the 2,200 of the previous treaty, which is still more than enough to wipe each other off the map. But in the Strangelovean world of nuclear deterrence, the slightest threat to parity is a cause for major problems. Early on in the START negotiations last summer, Kristensen says, the Russians balked at a provision that would allow the U.S. to inspect the production facilities of its new RS-24 ICBM because they would not be able to inspect American ICBM construction sites. Kristensen says that's because the U.S. isn't building any new missiles...
...Though an international moratorium on commercial whaling has been in place since 1986, Japanese whalers use a provision - some say a loophole - that allows whales to be killed for research. This summer in the southern hemisphere, Japan aims to cull 985 whales for scientific purposes, according to a Reuters report. Though their boats are emblazoned with the word "Research," much of their catch ends up on the plates of Japanese consumers, not in labs. Japan's ICR says that the income from whale-meat sales funds scientific research and that international law mandates that it not waste the meat...