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...have made comments about Amy Winehouse's alleged drug and alcohol abuse. Do you have any advice for her? -Mike Moll, Bethlehem, Pa.I think Amy should hang out with winners more than dealers. Sometimes when you are that talented, you are the last one to realize it. So you tend to hide your talent behind getting high. I have been there...
...capita basis, MySpace has 4% more women visiting its site than Facebook. Facebook users tend to be more affluent, with its users skewing towards households earning over $60,000 per year, while MySpace users skew toward lower income levels, with 12% more of its users earning under $60,000 per year. Using the psychographic system Mosaic to track U.S. Internet users, it's clear that there's a class distinction between users of the two social networks. Facebook's most predominant group of visitors in Mosaic is "affluent suburbia," a group that Mosaic describes as "the wealthiest households...
...willing to pay a small ransom to own a Roller? They're people who tend to own four to eight cars, and often have at least one Rolls in the garage already - 37% are repeat buyers. Buyers tend to be entrepreneurs, showbusiness celebrities or sports stars; few are corporate executives. One factor working against Rolls-Royce in the West is a growing tendency among the wealthy to be less ostentatious, Rhys says. But showing off one's megabucks is culturally acceptable in China, he adds. That helps explain why China is now Rolls' third largest and fastest-growing market, accounting...
...Florida Marlins in that '97 series, remembers his contacts fogging up in the Cleveland cold. "I had to keep blinking to keep my eyes moist," he says. "This is a very bad thing. It was almost like a film was over my eyes." The eyes of other players tend to tear up in the frost, which makes if harder for them to see the ball...
...policies of pursuing economic growth without promoting social equality. "A large body of economic thinking suggests that the widening of inequality is one of the inevitable by-products of rapid economic growth in developing countries," he writes. "There is no universal consensus on this, but if inequality really does tend to widen as economies expand, then we had better hope that it is not the principal reason we're so violent. Because it isn't going to get better soon...