IT Ascent

`Avatar' maintains box-office ascent with $68.3M
AP Online; 1/3/2010; 577 words; The big blue aliens of "Avatar" are still packing movie fans into theaters. James Cameron's science-fiction epic took in $68.3 million domestically to remain the No. 1 movie for the third-straight weekend, raising its domestic total to $352.1 million in just 17 days. With $670 million

Grimmette and Martin, still eyeing Olympic gold
AP Online; 1/3/2010; 1218 words; ...1998 and silver in 2002, Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin showed up at the Olympics four years ago ready to complete the medal ascent. Then they could have happily slid away, gold medals in hand, having won essentially all there is for doubles teams to win...

green
The Independent on Sunday; 1/3/2010; 736 words; ...These involve fuel-efficiency measures to cut kerosene use, such as taxiing on one engine, taking off with steeper ascents, and descending with the engines idle. Scandinavian airline SAS (flysas.com) is among the front runners. It says tests...

snow
The Independent on Sunday; 1/3/2010; 665 words; ...can hit the slopes before the lifts start by making a snowcat ascent of Col Alto, the Corvara ski slope where Italy's first ski lift was built in 1947. Get up for the 6.50am ascent on Tuesdays and be rewarded with first tracks down, plus a...

The Beck effect
The Washington Post; 1/3/2010; 917 words; ...talkers, was willing "to give a platform to the conspiracy theorists and anti-government extremists." His critics during his ascent over the year have compared the pudgy Fox News host to Father Coughlin, George Wallace and Joe McCarthy. Time magazine put...