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...screen--roughly six times as much as conventional theaters. Armed with those numbers, IMAX hopes it can convince Hollywood and theater operators that IMAX movies can draw big crowds at premium prices. For an industry stung by a 4% drop in attendance last year and probably steeper drops this year, according to box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations Co., it may be a compelling sales pitch. "We're ready for prime time," says IMAX co-chairman and co-CEO Richard Gelfond. "It's almost a no-brainer...
...construction, and raising gas taxes is as politically unpalatable in Texas as it is everywhere else. The state, for the first time, can go into debt by issuing bonds for new roads. Although those bonds can be paid back by a number of possible revenue sources (such as steeper fines for drunken driving), Texas policy now is to look first at tolling for all new highway projects...
...brisk breeze coming off the plains feels like a fan-forced oven. But there's no wind 60 m below, where the flat bowl of the crater is still and stifling, almost steamy from the moisture trapped in the sinkholes and fractures beneath the sand. The inside face is steeper. The rocks slip and clatter, startling ring-tailed dragon lizards that jut their jaws at the intruder in seeming defiance. A balancing hand placed carelessly into the spinifex needles is rewarded with a dozen tiny dots of blood; peripheral vision catches the thick brown tail of a snake gliding face...
...easy to see how a blazing-fast connection on a big-screen laptop--anytime, anywhere--might pose a threat to firms like Sprint and Verizon, which are investing billions of dollars to deliver fancy 3G data services over your cell phone or laptop at slower rates and steeper fees. Yet there's no proof consumers will pay. "No wireless data-only network in the world has ever made money," warns Andrew Seybold, a wireless analyst based in Los Gatos, Calif. That so many have rushed to invest in Wi-Fi is, he predicts, "the next dotcom disaster...
...back-to-back penalties in the third period kind of cooked our goose,” said Yale coach Tim Taylor. “When [Harvard] got the fourth goal, it made the hill a lot steeper...