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Americas, and 8 Africans
    • 70 nonwhite, 30 white
    • 70 non-Christian, 30 Christian
    • 50% of the wealth in the hands of 6 people—all in the U.S.
    • 80 living in substandard housing
    • 70 who were illiterate
    • 50 suffering from malnutrition
    • 1 person near death, 1 near birth
    • 1 with a college education
    • Not one who owned a computer…or a Bathroom Reader

BOX OFFICE BLOOPERS
Some of our favorites from new and classic films .
    M ovie: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Scene: When Elliott (Henry Thomas) first meets E.T. in his backyard, a crescent moon can be seen overhead.
    Blooper: In the famous bike-flying scene, the silhouettes of Elliott and E.T. pass in front of a full moon, yet it’s only three days later.
    Movie: Braveheart (1995)
    Scene: In the beginning of the film, young William Wallace (James Robinson) is throwing rocks with his left hand.
    Blooper: In the next scene, a grown-up William Wallace (Mel Gibson) is throwing rocks with his right hand.
    Movie: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
    Scene: At the veterinary hospital, Kate (Claire Danes) is hiding only a few feet away from the T-X (Kristanna Loken).
    Blooper: The T-X is the state-of-the-art Terminator, with heightened sensory awareness all around: sight, hearing, smell, even the ability to sense body heat. Yet somehow Kate—heavy breathing, sweating, and all—stays under the T-X’s radar and escapes.
    Movie: Titanic (1997)
    Scene: The passengers are all boarding the lifeboats.
    Blooper: One of them is wearing a digital watch.
    Movie: Maid in Manhattan (2002)
    Scene: Near the beginning of the movie, it’s six days before Christmas. There’s a fresh blanket of snow in the foreground.
    Blooper: Someone forgot to tell the trees—in the next scene they all have green leaves.
    Movie: L.A. Confidential (1997)
    Scene: Toward the end of the movie, Lynn Bracken (Kim Basinger) is talking to Detective Exley (Guy Pearce).
Makes sense: Frito means “fried” in Spanish.
    Blooper: An establishing shot shows them facing each other, but in each of their close-ups, the sun is behind their heads. Are there two suns in Los Angeles?
    Movie: Forrest Gump (1994)
    Scene: After Jenny (Robin Wright) dies, Forrest (Tom Hanks) is visiting her grave. He says, “You died on a Saturday.”
    Blooper: The gravestone reads March 12, 1982 (it’s a Friday).
    Movie: Galaxy Quest (1999)
    Scene: When Commander Taggert (Tim Allen) and Lieutenant Madison (Sigourney Weaver) first encounter the “chompers,” Madison exclaims, “Oh, screw that!”
    Blooper: That’s what we hear , but it doesn’t take a professional lip reader to see that she actually says…a word other than “screw.”
    Movie: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
    Scene: The audience is told that it is a “late November evening.”
    Blooper: In the very next scene, when Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon) are in the car, Richard Nixon’s resignation speech is playing on the radio. Nixon resigned in August.
    Movie: Pearl Harbor (2001)
    Scene: When Evelyn (Kate Beckinsale) first arrives at Pearl Harbor, she walks past a tall building.
    Blooper: The building has a sign that says “Est. 1953”—12 years after the actual attack.
    Movie: When Harry Met Sally (1989)
    Scene: During a car ride when Harry (Billy Crystal) first gets to know Sally (Meg Ryan), Harry is spitting seeds out of an open window.
    Blooper: An exterior shot shows that Harry’s window is closed.
    Movie: There’s Something About Mary (1998)
    Scene: Ted Stroehmann (Ben Stiller) gets “stuck” in his zipper.
    Blooper: While trying to get free of the zipper, Ted somehow manages to alternate between wearing his tuxedo jacket and not wearing it, from close-ups to wide shots.
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LAND OF THE GIANTS
Back in the early 1960s, little Uncle John saw a giant statue of Paul Bunyan at Freedomland USA, an amusement park outside New York