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...studying the Internet and viral trends, and you claim that everything moves too quickly. Isn't writing a book about that sort of counterintuitive? That is the paradox. While I was writing the book, I had to be constantly thinking about what a reader two years down the road would find funny and interesting. I think the lag time works because what I'm trying to get across is that we get so drunk with excitement about the little trends and stories that flit through our lives, but if you look at them in retrospect even a month down...
...melody isn't quite so sweet, however, once you get below the very top end of the market. Sales of midlevel violins - those valued under $100,000 - have weakened like nearly everything else in the recession...
...market's high end, new funds have launched to capitalize on the opportunity to diversify into fine instruments. Florian Leonhard, a London-based violin expert and dealer, is gathering more than $50 million for the Fine Violins Fund, aiming to buy as many as 50 old Italian instruments. Leonhard isn't alone in his confidence in the market. Emigrant Bank Fine Art Finance lends large sums of money using violins and cellos as collateral. And former concert violinist Staffan Borseman has established Stradivari Invest to advise big investors on the purchase of top instruments...
...Males, who have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome, possess only one copy of this gene, while females, who have two X chromosomes, carry two," Beaver says. "Thus, if a male has a variant for the MAO-A gene that is linked to violence, there isn't another copy to counteract it." (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...there a decent hybrid? Not from an environmental perspective. Greenpeace isn't a fan of Scott's new Naturals line because less than half the toilet paper is recycled material - and because its manufacturer has yet to adopt a less toxic bleaching process. And the group is only lukewarm about Marcal's Small Steps, which is 100% recycled but contains less than 50% postconsumer material, i.e., the paper you recycle at the office as opposed to scraps from manufacturing and other sources that have never been processed into consumer goods...