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...competitors were "asleep at the switch," was an aggressive businessman and proud of it. He was so good at dominating the ticket industry (and consequently became practically the only game in town) that Pearl Jam rebelled in 1994 with a campaign known as "TicketBastard." The band wanted to offer summer tour tickets to fans for under $20 and asked Ticketmaster to charge less than $2 in service fees. Ticketmaster refused, Pearl Jam canceled its tour and took its case to Congress. Ticketmaster prevailed, but not before the band accused the company of sending private investigators to snoop around Pearl...
...cities still in the running for the 2016 Summer Games - Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo will hand their final submissions to the IOC this week - are also wary of the downturn. Chicago's plan for the Games rests almost entirely on contributions from businesses, foundations and individuals. "The private funding initiatives on behalf of the general public [are] a well-established precedent in Chicago," says Patrick Ryan, chairman and CEO of Chicago 2016. Ryan remains optimistic that Chicago can raise enough money should it win the Games, not least because Chicago's proposed athletes' village would be located...
...team led by Dr. Bahman Guyuron of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, are plastic surgeons who study faces for a living. They analyzed photographs of the faces of 186 pairs of identical twins taken at the Twins Days Festival, a sort of twin-pride event held every summer in (naturally) Twinsburg, Ohio. Because the pairs had identical genetic material, differences in how old they looked could be attributed entirely to their behavioral choices and environment. Guyuron's team had the twins fill out extensive questionnaires about their lives - everything from how many times they had married to whether they...
...bottom line is that if you care mostly about a young-looking face, don't smoke, don't spend time in the sun without protection, and try not to get into a bad relationship that will make you depressed. Instead, this summer at the beach, stay inside and have an ice cream. Make it a double scoop...
...those events was the 800-meter run, in which sophomore Hilary May blazed to a first-place finish with an NCAA-qualifying time of 2:08.70. “Hillary has had a great indoor season,” Saretsky said. “She really spent the summer committed to training. As a result, she has continued to gain strength and confidence.”Senior captain Becky Christenson—who just last week earned an automatic bid to the NCAA championships in high jump with a personal best of 1.86 meters—continued to dominate, clearing...