The box office of Harry Potter movies (six in total) exceeded 4 trillion dollars, and the Harry Potter brand is estimated at 14.6 trillion dollars. Rowling remains the richest woman in Britain whose wealth is estimated at 545 million pounds (400 million books have been sold).
Books and movies about the adventures of the young wizard are read and watched by both children and adults. Rowling, the world plunged into Potter-mania. In 2001, after the first screening of the novel about a boy-wizard Harry Potter written by an English housewife J.
He considered the Nobel Price he received this year an advance. He reset the relations with Russian and Islamic world. He promised to withdraw the troops from Iraq in 2010 and sent more troops to Afghanistan. Yet, the healthcare reform initiated by the new President attracted a great deal of criticism. His slogan “Yes We Can” became a symbol of hope for Americans. On November 4, 2008, for the first time in the US history, a black Senator Barack Obama was elected the president of the United States. Sales of anti-virus medication Tummy Flu have increased more than four-fold up to 2.6 billion dollars. Seven billion Euro worth of medication was purchased all over the world (in Russia, the creation of a vaccine cost 4 billion dollars). Pharmaceutical companies have greatly benefited from the epidemic. In 2002–2003, the human race was frightened with SARS (8,437 infected, 813 dead), in 2003–2008 bird flu was the main scare (361 infected, 227 dead), and since April 2009 the world has been struggling with swine flu epidemic (over 250,000 infected, 11,500 dead).
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