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What We Learned from a Decade at the Movies

Jan. 3, 2010
In the last ten years, superheroes got serious, fantasy got real, and romance turned into bromance. Those and other lessons of the big screen, from TIME's film critic Richard Corliss
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler