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...long tail as a theory is most persuasive in explaining how companies selling more products with lower demand can easily compete with (or even surpass) those solely dependent on hits. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos was the first retailer to deploy that new business model online. Amazon's virtual inventory of 3.7 million books dwarfs the typical Barnes & Noble retail store, which carries about 100,000 titles. The vast majority of Amazon's books may sell only a few thousand copies, but the 3.6 million less popular books not carried by its rival account for 25% of Amazon's total book...
...refusal to sign the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Because it is a “superpower,” decisions made by the U.S. have global impact, Ebadi said. “The U.S. should join the ICC and become a role model for the rest of the world,” Ebadi said, “This is how the dictators of the world will lose sleep.” International conventions should be the framework for international action because, Ebadi said, “it is in this manner that democracy...
...Beverly Hills introduced an upright roller with a built-in scale. "Anyone who's been through that embarrassing moment at the check-in counter when you're over the weight limit and you have to unpack in front of everyone will appreciate this product," says Cobb. Just lift the model off the floor, and a small screen under the handle will tell you whether you have overpacked...
...girl whose bathing suit is being pulled down by a dog, exposing tan lines, accompanied by the slogan, "Don't be a paleface"; in Ocala, Florida. The illustrator, who did campaigns for Pampers and Coca-Cola and also painted pinup girls , employed her daughter Cheri, then 3, as the model for the famous ad. Cheri "worked cheap and was convenient," Brand said...
...provided enough money to enable student scores to to improve as rapidly as the law calls for. David Shreve, who works on the education committee for the National Conference of State Legislatures, dismisses much of Spellings' recent flexibility, noting that the Department of Education, while approving the new model for evaluating student performance in Tennessee and North Carolina, rejected similar applications of more than a dozen other states. "I think it's rather disingenuous to float the idea of all these things you can to do to fix No Child Left Behind and then award it to only a couple...