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...sector could take another direct hit. The rise was tempered by an offer by OPEC to release an extra 2 million barrels a day on world markets, which helped prices to ease slightly on the New York Mercantile Exchange-where the cost of a barrel of light crude had risen by more than $4 Monday, the biggest one-day increase in history...
Course materials are getting more expensive. Over the last two decades, a Government Accountability Office study found that textbook prices have risen at double the rate of inflation. The situation is so out-of-control that Senator Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., has introduced legislation to help defray some of the $898 a year on average that students shell out for textbooks...
...growing support for same-sex marriage within the Legislature reflects a parallel trend among the state’s public. In 2003, barely 44 percent of Massachusetts residents supported same-sex marriage. Today, that number has risen to 56 percent, and the number of residents who actively oppose same-sex marriage has fallen to below 40 percent. Across the state, people are realizing that life after same-sex marriage has not differed at all from life before same-sex marriage. Far from being a radical innovation of left-wing activist judges, as Romney and his allies maintain, same-sex marriage...
...Microsoft? Senior execs from AOL and Time Warner (which owns AOL and TIME) have been meeting with Microsoft officials for several months, trying to work out a deal that could unite AOL with Microsoft's MSN network. The talks, which were first reported in the New York Post, have risen to the highest levels of both companies, involving direct discussions between Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons and Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer, says a source close to the talks. Negotiations are now at an impasse over key technology issues, such as whose instant-messaging platform would be used. But a variety...
...campaign, including ads produced by Wieden+Kennedy, an agency that's famous for managing Nike's advertising. Since the spots began airing, brand recognition for Aquos in the U.S., according to market-research surveys, has jumped from 30% to 57%, say Sharp executives. Sharp's global TV sales have risen 20%, to nearly $4 billion, and the company expects an additional 30% increase this year...