| 'Vantage Point' Snags Box Office Crown
The weekend's other two debuts, Lionsgate's "Witless Protection" and MGM's "Charlie Bartlett," came in at Nos. 13 and 14, respectively. Box office revenues were down for the second straight week. The top 12 movies grossed $90 million, down 23 percent from last weekend and 10 percent from the same weekend in 2007. Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Monday. 1. "Vantage Point," $24 million. 2. "Jumper," $12.7 million. 3. "Spiderwick Chronicles," $12.6 million. 4. "Step Up 2 the Streets," $9.8 million. 5. "Fool's Gold," $6.3 million. 6. "Definitely, Maybe," $5.2 million. 7. "Juno," $4.1 million. 7. "Be Kind Rewind," $4.1 million. 9.
Preschool to Grade 4
To the right of the spread a spotted cow and pink pig seem to be repressing a jig ("The big cow Lou and the/little sow Sue wanted to/make some/music, too"). Emerging readers will find the large print accessible as well as the mirroring relationship between text and illustration. Preschoolers will delight in this read-aloud that has much potential for participation—spoons, knee slapping, and clapping. One caution: the foot-stompin' rhythm may leave some adults with a fiddle sound reeling through their heads.—Teresa Pfeifer, Alfred Zanetti Montessori Magnet School, Springfield, MA BECHDOLT, Jack. Little Boy with a Big Horn illus. by Dan Yaccarino. unpaged. Random/A Golden Bk. 2008. Tr $14.99. ISBN 978-0-375-83903-0; PLB $17.99. ISBN 978-0-375-93903-7. LC 2007926073.
K-Gr 2—Ollie, a small child with oversize hair and big glasses, plays the tuba.
Boiling water spikes bisphenol A levels
Adding boiling water to polycarbonate plastic bottles causes a dramatic spike in the amount of bisphenol A, or BPA, leaching from containers into drinks, according to a U.S. research team. The finding suggests that parents sterilizing polycarbonate baby bottles by heating them in water or in a microwave may be inadvertently increasing the amount of the estrogen-mimicking chemical leaching from the containers. It also indicates hikers who use the bottles as a thermos to store hot tea or liquids may be doing the same. The addition of boiling water increased BPA migration rates by up to 55-fold compared with water at room temperature, according to experiments run at the University of Cincinnati. A paper outlining the findings is being released today in Toxicology Letters, a peer-reviewed journal.
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