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...dismay of Presidents Hoover and then Roosevelt designing policies to combat the Great Depression of the 1930s on the basis of such sketchy data as stock price indices, freight car loadings, and incomplete indices of industrial production," writes the University of North Carolina's Richard Froyen in his macroeconomics textbook...
Apple could also look to buy a blogging upstart like Tumblr or Posterous. Both are so easy to use that they make iWeb's instructions feel like a calculus textbook. Posterous lets anyone create and add to a blog by e-mail - you can post pictures, audio and videos just by adding attachments. When asked if he could envision partnering with his former employer at some point, Posterous founder Agarwal says, "I think Apple would be a great acquirer for Posterous." (See the best travel gadgets...
...wait, there's hope! Beren Professor of Economics Professor N. Gregory Mankiw stated on his popular blog that his Ec 10 textbook (along with 1,200 other titles) can now be rented from Cengage Brain, in either physical or digital form, at prices much lower than retail cost. Approximately 1,500 more titles are set to be added by July, and students can also purchase individual e-chapters as needed...
Alex, who taught “History Before History: From the Origins of the Earth to the Modern Era,” says about her experience leading a course, “I reread every textbook from undergraduate and graduate school I had and picked out topics that I though were interesting in the last 13.7 billion years of the world’s history...
...itself. "Kepler is working so amazingly well," says Berkeley's Geoff Marcy, a champion planet hunter in his own right and a member of the Kepler science team, "that the light curves [that is, the dips in light caused by transiting planets] look like they come from a textbook, not a real instrument...