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According to the paper, "Payment for Sex in a Macaque Mating Market," published in the December issue of Animal Behavior, males in a group of about 50 long-tailed macaques in Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia, traded grooming services for sex with females; researchers, who studied the monkeys for some 20 months, found that males offered their payment up-front, as a kind of pre-sex ritual. It worked. After the females were groomed by male partners, female sexual activity more than doubled, from an average of 1.5 times an hour to 3.5 times. The study also showed that the number...
...issue that drove many of the WGA's 12,000 members to support this strike was ensuring payment when their work is used in new media formats like webisodes and iTunes downloads. But considerable energy in the negotiating room has been spent on other issues the parties can't get past, such as whether the WGA should include reality show and animation writers in its membership...
...have any cell-phone-payment pilot projects going...
...lenders and loan servicers to freeze interest rates on some of the 2 million subprime mortgage loans that are due for sharply upward rate resets in the next two years. Paulson has said the five-year freeze would apply to borrowers "with steady incomes and relatively clean payment histories who could afford the lower introductory mortgage rate but cannot afford the higher adjusted rate...
Harvard has worked to improve search methods for prospective applicants who qualify for the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI), under which the college requires no payment from families that make less than...