| 'Vantage Point' leads box office
New Line's Jack Black comedy "Be Kind Rewind" opened in seventh place with $4.1 million from a barely wide 808 playdates. Lionsgate's Larry the Cable Guy comedy "Witless Protection" bowed out of the top rankings with $2.2 million. And MGM's Robert Downey Jr. starrer "Charlie Bartlett" debuted with just $1.8 million. Also, National Geographic Cinema expanded its "U2 3D" concert film into wide release after a previous limited run, grossing $1 million from 686 venues, up from a previous 40. That shaped a cume of $4.9 million. Industrywide, the weekend's $107 million in collective grosses represented an 8 percent decline when compared with the same frame a year ago, according to Nielsen EDI. That's the third consecutive year-over-year weekly decline. Moviegoers' preoccupation with the Academy Awards telecast caused distributors to pencil in lighter grosses than for a typical winter Sunday, but that was true on the comparable frame from 2007.
TV Lookout: Highlights March 2-8
EST on ABC. Other shows to look out for: _ Fun facts about your body: It can withstand six times its weight when running and 12 times its weight when squatting. The human rib cage is built so tough that it can support half a ton while still protecting vital organs. For more cool facts, catch a four-hour miniseries, "Human Body: Pushing the Limits," which explores physical and mental feats of the body under the most challenging circumstances. In the first two hours, airing Sunday at 9 p.m. EST on Discovery Channel, human muscles, ligaments, joints and bones are seen at work as a man survives the fury of a tornado, or is pinned beneath a half-ton boulder. Then the power of sight gets a close look, with a lifeguard capable of spotting someone in trouble among thousands, and a firefighter battling thick black smoke to see his way to safety.
30-body mortuary opens in Malir Town
KARACHI: Malir Town Acting Nazim Sharafat Ali inaugurated the towns first mortuary Friday and vowed to expand similar facilities in other union councils (UC) in the future.
Ali said that the town administration constructed this centre at an estimated cost of Rs 5 million, and it has the capacity for 30 bodies along with an ambulance services. The Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation donated four ambulances and one bus to the centre, he said. The work on the mortuary located in UC 2 near Kala Board area started a year ago.
German Commercial Ambassador inaugurates filter plant: The third filter plant Safe Drinking Water Center in UC1 was inaugurated Friday by Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town Nazim Wasay Jamil with the Germany Commercial Ambassador Gudrun Haider.
The first two filter plants were set up in UC 6 and 10, in collaboration with Jans Consultant, to provide hygienic filtered potable water to the residents.
Why conservatives should be the first to say sorry...
On budget night two years ago, I found myself sitting in the Great Hall of Parliament House chatting away with some woman from a Liberal Party branch. After being lectured by her for 10 minutes on why "those nasty Mozzlems" didn't belong in Australia, I thought I might change the topic. So I switched to Indigenous affairs. The conversation went something like this:
SHE: Oh, them Abbos! What they need is a good dose of Western Christian civilisation.
ME: Well, madam, do you consider yourself a conservative?
SHE: Of course!
ME: And do you support the status quo?
SHE: Well, yes I do.
ME: Now on the one hand, we have around 200 years of European cultural status quo on this continent. We also have 40,000 years of Indigenous cultural status quo.
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