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Playing on a mere 15 screens, Up in the Air soared to a stratospheric $1.2 million. The Jason Reitman comedy-drama, starring George Clooney as a charming, rootless management consultant who flies around the country firing people, was deemed a front runner for the Best Picture Oscar after its premieres at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals. The National Board of Review, the first big group to announce its year-end awards, showered Up in the Air with four major laurels: best film, actor (Clooney), supporting actress (Anna Kendrick) and adapted screenplay. The picture, which comes to your neighborhood...
...section - popular chocolates shaped like triangles or trapezoids - the Kit Kat from Nestlé just beat out Hershey's Kisses, an entrant at a slight disadvantage because voters had to imagine how they tasted after the local convenience store sold out of them. (That may have been for the best: TIME's test generated a deluge of opinions about where the best chocolate comes from. The bottom line on the Old World side of the Atlantic: big selling American chocolate is sour, powdery and generally inferior to European chocolate...
...main lesson from the test: it's unlikely I'll ever again get to feed chocolate to a succession of blindfolded women. On the other hand, chocolate is sometimes best enjoyed without sharing. After all, the confectioner with the highest score was none other than Cadbury. Let that be a lesson to whichever firm does nab one of Britain's great icons: don't mess with a favorite...
...Comparative Effectiveness After a huge behind-the-scenes fight last winter, Congress allocated $1.1 billion of the economic-stimulus measure to "comparative effectiveness" studies, which evaluate which medical treatments and tests work best. Both the House and Senate bills would set up institutes to compare the efficacy of various procedures. Proponents say the studies are essential to ending medical treatments that juice up fees without adding much benefit. But it is far from clear whether Congress would allow such studies to affect health care costs. Opponents say they are a precursor to medical rationing. Indeed, both the House and Senate...
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