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Prepare to take a closer look at your credit-card bills: Chase, Citibank, and other card issuers are raising minimum payments from 2% to as much as 5% of outstanding balances. The rates will take effect by fall. --By Jeremy Caplan...
Sony isn't alone in that market. Microsoft recently announced a new micropayment system for Xbox, letting gamers make small purchases through their consoles. "Gamers want what they want when they want it and how they want it," says Tokheim. For now, that means pizza, pronto. --By Jeremy Caplan...
...President Larry Summers last week, following his controversial remarks about why women are underrepresented in the fields of math and science. But that is hardly the only controversy roiling the Ivy League these days. Here are some of the other hot-button issues raising temperatures on campus. --By Jeremy Caplan...
...Padua, a food scientist at the University of Illinois, in Urbana, has developed a biodegradable gum made of zein, a corn derivative. It's costly to make but doesn't adhere to surfaces. And its flavor? "It tastes plain," Padua admits, "but you can blow big bubbles." --By Jeremy Caplan...
...HUMAN ANIMAL IS A BIZARRE BEAST. HAVING popularized pet yoga, doggie "bark mitzvahs" and other novel anthropomorphisms, animal lovers keep blurring the lines between man and his animal-kingdom friends. And sometimes the animals do the blurring. --By Jeremy Caplan...