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Broadcast's new enemy is digital media, including venues like Hulu that were created by the networks themselves, which cut into their ad dollars. Last year Heroes creator Tim Kring gave a legendary rant about how viewers using TiVo or DVDs or downloading - legally or not - cut into the show...
Using information technology to figure out which treatments are most effective seems eminently sensible. Certain heart patients, for example, do just as well with clot-busting drugs as they would with angioplasty procedures, which typically cost thousands more. Crunching huge amounts of data from a wide cross section of patients...
On the discussion forum College Confidential.com a February thread debating whether applying for aid will hurt a student's chances of getting admitted has been viewed nearly 25,000 times. At Skidmore, one figure suggests the answer is yes: students of color, who disproportionately applied for financial aid, made up...
The same goes for our individual senses of lifestyle entitlement. During the perma-'80s, way too many of us were operating, consciously or not, with a dreamy gold-rush vision of getting rich the day after tomorrow and then cruising along as members of an impossibly large leisure class. (That...
The Old Bailey itself (the court is called after the street) is a forbidding structure built in 1902, sporting on its dome the gilded figure of Justice familiar from the TV program's titles. Anybody may sit in the courts' public galleries, unless a case is being tried in camera...