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Internet marketing doesn't always work - remember three years ago, when Snakes on a Plane was predicted to be a smash because of all the fanboy chat, then crashed on arrival? - but it can help spread the word for a film that has other elements, like thrills and ugly aliens. And when, like District 9, it's a damn fine movie...
...devastation has spread into every aspect of Vegas. The city has lost the Las Vegas Art Museum, its oldest one. Strippers, who are facing less extravagant tippers and floods of newly unemployed women from other cities flying in to audition, are shelling out more than $100 for online classes at a site called StripandGrowRich.com to hone their sales tactics. There are lifeless shopping malls everywhere; Neonopolis, the $100 million, 250,000-sq.-ft. downtown mall, has almost no open stores left...
...spread out and everyone hold's their responsibility. There are regulatory agencies and in each state there are parliaments. Governors are responsible to their parliaments and to the President for their performance. I don't follow the details; no one can follow the details in a country like Sudan...
...pleasantly surprised, and didn't expect this before the third quarter," says Gilles Moec, a European economist for Deutsche Bank in London. "But the improvement is rather thinly spread, and not necessarily sustainable. A lot will depend on whether the positive activity in exports and consumer spending continues, which may prove difficult." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
Hayes acknowledges that MRIs may also prove useful in detecting the spread of cancer from one breast to the other, but even here, he says, the data are still preliminary; MRIs may pick up about 3% to 5% of tumors that mammograms miss, but there is little evidence suggesting whether those additional tumors are malignant or benign. To find out the true benefit of MRI, he says, more research needs to be conducted. "Without randomized trials, we really don't know everything," says Norton...