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Holy gargantuan grosses, Batman! Hollywood has just ridden to the most lucrative moviegoing weekend in film history on the cape of The Dark Knight. Christopher Nolan's gritty Batman sequel raked in $155 million between Friday and Sunday, outselling the previous top weekend grosser, 2007's Spider-Man 3, by more than $4 million and driving the movie business to a record $253 million weekend...
...What a difference two years makes. On July 1, the Seattle coffee behemoth announced that it would close some 600 underperforming stores in the U.S., a move that Schultz called, "the most angst-ridden decision we have made in my more than 25 years with Starbucks." It is a sign that Starbucks, which has 11,434 outlets in the U.S., has hit a wall. The element of truth in countless parodies - like the new Starbucks that opens up in the bathroom of another - has finally caught up to a company that at one time was able to launch five...
...bishops have fallen out with some GAFcon leaders. The conservative conference now seems reduced mostly to Africans and some first-world ideologues, not all of whom are as gung-ho as Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola, the meeting's prime mover. Cheered on by several influential U.S. churchmen, Akinola has ridden high for several years as the point man for the ambitions of Anglicanism's populous, conservative "Global South" movement and for widespread outrage at the consecration of openly gay bishop V. Gene Robinson by the Episcopal Church of the U.S.A...
...people displaced in the attacks have sought refuge in police stations, churches and community centers. (Though thousands more refugees have likely found their way to friends and families living in other areas.) But at these emergency shelters, many have begun talking of returning home to the impoverished and strife-ridden countries they fled...
...expected rise in carbon dioxide emissions will be due to the developing world’s reliance on coal and fossil fuels. In fact, air pollution is even worse in developing Asia than it is in the United States. A brief walk through the streets of smog-ridden Bangalore can leave a healthy individual coughing within a matter of minutes; in fact, many of the residents of the rapidly growing city are forced to wear surgical masks to prevent the inhalation of smog, as they undertake their daily chores...