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...Awareness of body language and facial expression is among the social skills lost on a majority of the young people to whom I teach etiquette. I advise them to take small breaks from their gadgets and focus on actual conversations to gain vital skills they won't absorb via text or tweet. Maura Graber Ontario, Calif...
Tennessee and Delaware won the first round of the Race to the Top, a $4.35 billion federal grant program to help states improve their education systems. The two states bested more than 40 other applicants by not only coming up with solid plans to save failing schools but also garnering support for the plans from stakeholders. Tennessee was awarded $500 million; Delaware will receive $100 million. Some $3.4 billion remains to be awarded in another round this August...
News Item A: The romantic comedy Date Night, starring Steve Carell of The Office and 30 Rock's Tina Fey as a married couple in peril, won the weekend box-office race, narrowly beating last week's champ, Clash of the Titans. NBC's prime-time lineup on Thursday may no longer be "Must See TV," but two of the network's Thursday stalwarts paired for a Must See Moo-vee. (See TIME's review of Date Night...
Actually, we don't yet know who won the battle of Greek-myth fighting and rom-com fun. 20th Century Fox posted a weekend total for Date Night of $27.1 million at the North American box office, while Warner Bros. said that Clash of the Titans had earned $26,875,000. That's a difference of just $225,000, or less than 1%. The final, actual grosses will come out on Monday afternoon...
...MONDAY UPDATE: The final numbers produced a mild upset. Clash of the Titans won the weekend with an actual $26.6 million (close to the Warner Bros. estimate) to Date Night's $25.2 million. Fox honchos had predicted that Tina and Steve would enjoy a $7.1 million Sunday date, which proved to be fully 30% higher than the $5.43 million the movie took in. How to Train Your Dragon's estimated $25.4 million was also a little high; the true total was $24.9 million. So Clash gets to brag in this week's commercials that it's still...