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...that, at $8.3 million, was the love story Remember Me, starring vampire swoon king Robert Pattinson; not nearly enough Twilight fans booked tickets on the young male dreamboat. The interracial Our Family Wedding, with America Ferrara and Forest Whitaker, earned $7.6 million to finish sixth (after the holdover Shutter Island). So the four brand-new movies took in only about $40 million. It's the first weekend since the chill of pre-Avatar December when only two movies made more than $10 million...
...Alice in Wonderland, $62 million; $208.6 million, second week 2. Green Zone, $14.5 million, first weekend 3. She's Out of My League, $9.6 million, first weekend 4. Remember Me, $8.3 million, first weekend 5. Shutter Island, $8.1 million; $108 million, fourth week 6. Our Family Wedding, $7.6 million, first weekend 7. Avatar, $6.6 million; $730.3 million, 13th week 8. Brooklyn's Finest, $4.3 million; $21.4 million, second week 9. Cop Out, $4.2 million; $39.4 million, third week 10. The Crazies, $3.7 million; $33.3 million, third week...
...dealing with climate change means accepting a higher price on everything from gasoline to electricity. In crowded, low-lying Bangladesh, it means trying to avoid catastrophic flooding. Atique Chowdhury, Give Your Vote's organizer in Dhaka, is a self-described climate refugee, a former resident of an island near the Bay of Bengal that has been almost completely abandoned because of rising sea levels. "As a major emitter of carbon dioxide, the U.K. must take the responsibility," he says. But developing nations still want a say on how that's done. (See pictures of British soldiers in Afghanistan...
Jody came from Long Island, N.Y. She would return home during the summer to get a taste of the real world, once working on the boardwalk in Wildwood, N.J., living in a two-bedroom apartment with four girls she’d never met (after being told that it sounded like “Jersey Shore,” she says, “That’s exactly what it was. Well, no, except for the guido part. It was actually a bunch of French Canadians, who I don’t want to offend...
...daughters—who each weave their magic as artists, athletes, poets, entertainers, and sprites that dance in the summer night—have enriched my life beyond my wildest expectations.” He writes with precision and poignancy of finding peace on Long Island beaches, gardening with his daughters and biking alone...