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Local media reported earlier this month that The New York Times Company has threatened to close The Boston Globe, its erstwhile New England jewel whose once-bumper profits have morphed into massive losses. It’s easy to see why Times executives are fed up—losses at The Globe this year are projected at $85 million, a heavy burden that virtually no media company can bear in today’s economic environment...
...hallway leading off of the Quincy JCR is a quiet one with muted white walls, a hushed brown carpet, and subdued maroon doors. Until you reach office #6—a door which, unlike its silent fellows, is covered with colorful photos, portraits, and bumper stickers which roar: “United for Peace, Divided in War,” “Hate is Not a Family Value” and “DARE to Speak Truth to Power.” Inside, surrounded on one side by a jam-packed floor-to-ceiling bookshelf, on the other...
...Singaporeans just flipping the pages of the glossy property brochures or sadly gazing at the architectural models, wishing they were one of the frolicking toy figures in the miniature pool. They're buying too. Property developers sold 1,332 units of new private homes in February, a bumper sales crop that was the highest since August 2007, when the economy was booming. (See 10 things to do in Singapore...
...since settlers started moving West at the end of the 18th Century. Gentility is not usually an acceptable approach to settling differences in the United States. That may account for the large amount of violent crime here compared with other developed countries. In some states pick-ups still sport bumper stickers supporting capital punishment...
...imagined neurocircuitry that would bypass the mouth altogether and target different parts of the brain for different smell and taste sensations,” Zhou said. “People would wear a helmet. There could be a pole attached to the ceiling. It would be like bumper cars.”They envisioned a room full of bubbles in which people could simply open their mouths and taste everything from rhubarb pie to artichokes as the bubbles popped. But the bubbles’ lipid membranes were too weak to support imbedded particles. They tried tea. They tried mint. They...