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...Story and the 1999 Toy Story 2. Playing at jacked-up prices on 1,745 screens, the Toy tandem earned $12.5 million to add to the $847 million (about $1.1 billion today) the two movies amassed in their original releases, plus the untold quillions in home-video revenue and Woody and Buzz Lightyear merchandise. By the end of its two-week showcase run, the duo should surpass the entire domestic gross of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's 2007 Grindhouse, the last three-hour double feature to hit theaters...
...H1N1 vaccination, but McVay admits it may be December or January before vaccine recipients get the full benefit of immunization. "It takes two weeks to make antibodies, so you're just as vulnerable the day after as you were the day before," he says, adding that researchers are still unsure whether a booster shot will be needed. If it is, there will be a three-week delay before it can be administered, then an additional two-week wait for more antibodies to form. (What's behind the unproven swine flu vaccine...
...After completing his degree, Pant decided to take a trip to Japan as a volunteer for an environmental group. In Tokyo, what was originally scheduled to be a two-week sojourn stretched to three months as he immersed himself in one of Asia's most established gay subcultures. Homosexuality has a long history in Japan, with allusions to it documented as far back as the 11th century Tale of Genji. Attitudes changed with the growing influence of Christianity in the 1800s, but since the 1880s Japan has not had laws punishing homosexuality like those passed throughout the British colonies during...
...interrogated a lieutenant colonel who had defected from North Korea's supreme headquarters. My superiors agreed that in exchange for an extensive report, he would not be turned over to the South Koreans but would be allowed to continue his education in electrical engineering in the U.S. After a two-week interrogation, I was directed to turn him over to the CIA, who would then follow through with the agreement. A short time later, I heard that the CIA thought he might be a double agent and was considering eliminating him. I never heard anything about him again but have...
...interrogated a lieutenant colonel who had defected from North Korea's supreme headquarters. My superiors agreed that in exchange for an extensive report, he would not be turned over to the South Koreans but would be allowed to continue his education in electrical engineering in the U.S. After a two-week interrogation, I was directed to turn him over to the CIA, who would then follow through with the agreement. A short time later, I heard that the CIA thought he might be a double agent and was considering eliminating him. I never heard anything about him again but have...