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...flexibility," says Jon Lewen, who is overseeing the effort for Viacom Outdoor, "even those advertisers who traditionally wouldn't consider it do." Not only are digital displays nimble, but they also allow outdoor ad agencies to sell the same real estate more than once. Since July, in a test campaign in Cleveland, Ohio, Clear Channel Outdoor has had seven large-format led boards, each running seven 8-sec. spots a minute. If the current rate of ad sales continues, Clear Channel's Meyer estimates that the boards will produce revenue of $2.3 million in 12 months. Those seven displays...
...test of a good mind, it is said, is the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts simultaneously. The question raised by The Notorious Bettie Page is whether that aperçu also applies to hearts. For Page, who in real life gained a dubious fame by posing for risibly risqué pictures back in the 1950s, is portrayed as both a sweet-souled religious fundamentalist and a genial exhibitionist. She seems to feel that the good Lord gave her an attractive body for the excellent reason that it pleasured men to ogle it in various states of undress...
Hoping to heal the human body, Harvard pre-meds are learning that applying to medical school can cost an arm and a leg. A typical Harvard undergraduate applying to medical school can rack up more than $6,000 in costs for applications, the MCAT, test prep, and travel costs for interviews, according to students and advisers. While some resources are available for undergraduates from low-income backgrounds, including loans from the Harvard Financial Aid Office, many applicants do not qualify for application fee waivers and medical schools do not offer financial aid for students not yet enrolled. These expenses...
...student in sophomore English who was struggling with my class and with school in general. Although he was a humorous young man who liked to joke around, I knew his family life was far from ideal. Whenever I approached him about missing homework or low test grades, he always had the same reply: "It doesn't matter because I'm quittin' school anyway." Even though he always said this in a half-teasing way, I knew he needed to hear my protests and my "value of a high school education" lecture. He needed to hear this speech from me because...
...something that you saw on TV, maybe you’re more likely to go get it,” Wiecha said. “This is the first time that we have evidence that television drives up calorie intake, independent of exercise.” To test the correlation between calories and couch potatoes, the Harvard researchers—including Wiecha, Professor of the Practice of Health Sociology Steven L. Gortmaker, Associate Professor of Nutrition and Society Karen E. Peterson, Research Fellow Juhee Kim, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics David S. Ludwig—conducted an observational study with...