For Hollywood, there is nothing more super than a superhero movie. Batman, Iron Man, Spider-man – these characters’ secret power isn’t super strength or tech wizardy but an uncanny ability to generate billions of dollars at the box office.
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Blind eye turned to Jackson’s drugs
Michael Jackson’s family and friends knew he was addicted to prescription medications, but the only ones who refused to acknowledge it were the promoters of his ill-fated final series of comeback concerts, an attorney for the singer’s mother has told a US jury. Lawyer Brian Panish traced Jackson’s addiction in opening statements during the trial of a wrongful death lawsuit against concert giant AEG Live, telling jurors the company ignored numerous warning signs about the singer’s health in his final months.
Science: Aluminum Plating
Electroplating stout metals with aluminum was described at the Chicago Institute of the American Chemical Society last week. If the process should become practicable commercially, housewifery and industry will benefit by inestimable billions.
Getting Smart at Being Good…Are Companies Better Off for It?
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Embracing the Enemy is Good Business
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The Supreme Court: Espousing Easier Escheat
Each year billions of dollars' worth of property is abandoned all over the U.S. When that property is something as tangible as buildings or land, there is no question about who takes it over.The state in which it is located gets it through “escheat,” a feudal doctrine by which the land of a man who died without heirs reverted to the original grantor, or lord of the manor
Does Obama’s Education Plan Make the Grade?
On March 15, President Obama unveiled his plan for reforming the nation’s education system. The bulk of the plan, which looks to overhaul George W.
One Year After the Bailout, Greece is Still Hurting
Konstantinos Sourmelis, a 56-year-old technician for OSE, Greece’s state-owned railway, marched to central Athens on Wednesday to send parliament a simple message: Stop selling out the country. Like the thousands of other demonstrators who protested in the country’s latest general strike, Sourmelis accuses the government of scapegoating OSE and public utilities as part of its proposed privatization plan, the next in a string of attempts to raise the billions that Greece owes foreign creditors
Large Hadron Collider: In Search of the ‘God Particle’
The ATLAS particle detector at the European Organization for Nuclear Research outside Geneva is 150 ft. long, 82 ft
Salvador’s Supersalesman
With an assist from Duarte, Reagan reassures Congress and critics The Reagan Administration wants to give billions of dollars to Central America, it says, to support liberty and political pluralism.