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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...comedy about a non-American who has sex with a man: it finished behind The Proposal, which has been in theaters three weeks longer. (The Sandra Bullock movie was buoyed Friday by screenings in auditoriums also showing sneak previews of next weekend's Katherine Heigl rom-com The Ugly Truth.) Holding even stronger was The Hangover, which cost $35 million to produce and is cruising toward the $250 million domestic mark. Brüno, The Hangover and The Proposal finished within $100,000 of one another, according to industry estimates. Monday's final figures could rearrange the order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Wizardry: Harry Potter's Wand-erful Week | 7/19/2009 | See Source »

...businessman's PowerPoint presentation. "Forecasts satisfy a deep psychological need that we live in a somewhat predictable and controllable world," says Philip Tetlock, a professor of organizational behavior at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. "Those are essential stories. People just find the truth" - that the future is unknowable - "too dissonant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are Economists So Bad at Forecasting? | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

...motivation), hypothalamus (associated with hormone secretion), hippocampus (associated with social learning) and insula (associated with subjective feelings) all become more active. By contrast, boys in the same situation show no such increase in activity in these areas. In fact, the activity in their insula actually declines. (Read "The Truth About Teen Girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Girls Have BFFs and Boys Hang Out in Packs | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

...Veilleux says the officials then ordered him to keep what he had been told secret. "We're convinced the bodies were never recovered because they were riddled with bullets - something that would have discredited Algeria's official version and revealed the active complicity by French officials in covering the truth up," says lawyer Baudouin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Seven Dead Monks Upset President Nicolas Sarkozy's Bold Plans To Remake France's Legal System? | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

...fearless, and boldly defended the truth and protected the interests of people," Shamkhan Akbulatov, head of Memorial in Chechnya, told Russian news agency Itar-Tass. "She was killed because of her professional work." Prosecutors investigating the case agree, saying the murder was linked either to her work or a personal enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killings of Russia's Human-Rights Activists Continue | 7/16/2009 | See Source »

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