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...sad fact is that the revenue discrepancy between the mainstream Hollywood product and indie or foreign films has never been so chasmic. In domestic box-office terms, How to Train Your Dragon is the Statue of Liberty, while the new Swedish release The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is one of those Willard Wigan microsculptures that fit inside the eye of a needle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: A Tale of Two Dragons | 3/28/2010 | See Source »

...designed and built as a zoology museum, and now it’s going to be split in half and other departments are moving in here—and that to me is really sad,” said curatorial associate Judith Chupasko in an interview last year. “I really love the space here...It bums...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Collections To Find New Home in Northwest Science Building | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

...Diego State psychologist Robert McGivern that showed that certain cognitive processes become temporarily less efficient at puberty. McGivern and his associates timed 300 subjects, ages 10 to 22, as they did a very simple set of matching tasks involving pictures of facial expressions and words describing them (happy, angry, sad). The study found that around the onset of puberty (about age 11 for girls and 12 for boys), people take significantly longer to do this easy task. McGivern and his associates attributed the slow pace to the excess number of synapses in the brain at puberty - essentially, too many connections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Puberty Make You Stupid? Lessons from Mice | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

...We’re sad to be going home,” sophomore Devan Kennifer said. “We’ve been loving [it in] California...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Water Polo Continues Solid Play in California | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

...unprecedented $79 million shortfall, Presiding Judge Charles W. McCoy said that the courts will lay-off an additional 500 workers and shutter up to a total of 50 courtrooms come September. Announcing the cutbacks in a courtroom closed months ago to save money, McCoy said, "Today is a sad day for justice in Los Angeles." With attrition, McCoy expects the 5,400-employee court system to lose approximately 1,000 employees, a 20% reduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Justice for Some: L.A.'s Shrinking Court System | 3/21/2010 | See Source »

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