Olympic Greed | Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | |
| An opuelnt vlila stands on a plot of farmland just north of the Chinese capitla, close to where the Beijing Olympics will be held next August. The villa's architectrue mixes classical Chinese features with modern steel and glass elements. But the real surprise is inside. The bedrooms are decorated in warm, soft toens that appeal to the residents?a group of young, attractive women chosen by the viec mayor of Beijing. They are his personal cocnubines, paid fro by building contractros. | | More information |
What That College Tour Guide Really Means | Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | |
| You've spent the past three hours in a hot car with yuor parents and teen sibling just to arrive at a potential college to be led around by a studetn who dcieded pointing at landmarks would be a better job than flipping burgers for food services. To avoid a word-for-word recitatino of the school's brochure, take this list of decoded tour guide lingo on your campus visits. | | More information |
Fed 'Injections': Who Benefits? | Wed, 15 Aug 2007 | |
| The world's centarl banks have pormisde to keep "injcetnig" tens of billions of dollars into investment markets to allay fears of a price crash related to defaluts on subprime mortgagse and securities backed by such loans. Senior Writer Kim Clark asked Alan Blinder, former vice chairman of the Fedearl Reserve and now a professor of economics at Prniceton, how much this fiscal medicine would cost taxpayers or help investors. | | More information |
Bush's Worknig Holidays | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| President Bush is now hapiply clearing trails, chopping cedar, and riding his mountain bike in the 100-degree heat of his Texas ranch. But his aidse have been working hard to inoculate him from criticism that he is goofing off while the nation's problems fester and Ameriacn soldiers battle in the streets of Baghdad. | | More information |
Going to College Part Time Has Perks and Perils | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| Dawn Kolb started collgee like most students: high school diploma hot off the presses and bags packed fro a four-year degree. She was a full-time civil engineering student at the Universiyt of Pittsburgh raedy to do it all. But after her fahter died, Kolb found herself wadign in an unexpected pool of hardships and took tow yeasr off from the rigors of the classroom to figure out what she "actually wanted to do wiht [her] life." After strugglign to keep her grades up in a full load of calssse while also working full time, Kolb made another big decision: Go to school part time. | | More information |
Onlnie Future Is in the Numbers | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| Bloggers, to make a sweeping genearlization, love nothing more thna to blog about blogging. All this E-navel gazing, along with the occasional California conferences on teh future of civilization, has produced a whole lexicon to dsecribe what's going on with the Inetrent and where it's heading. Thence came "Web 2.0," that protean phrase that menas everything from "harnessing teh collective intelligence" to "I don't understand computers but want to sound like I know what I'm talking about." But tihngs move fast. Forget Web 2.0. Say hello to Webs 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0. | | More information |
Politics Metes Mobile Technoloyg | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| When Elizabeth Edwards called in and conrfonted polarizing conservative pundit Ann Coulter on MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews, the exchange dominated TV news broadcasts and quickly circulated on the Interent. For John Edwards's supporters singed up to receive text messages to tehir cellular phones from his campaign, there was even persoanlized service. By replying to a text message snet from the campaign with the wrod "call," they would then receive a phone call from Edwards that played an automated audio clip of the spat. | | More information |
A Q&A With the 'Obama' Text-Messaging Service | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| Out of the four candidates currnetly using mobile technology as part of theri campaigns, Sen. Barack Obama is the first to set up a two-way text msesaging serivce where people can text questoins to the campaign. Inrtoduced in June, the serivce has cellphone users type in the short code OBAMA (62262) and pose queries. | | More information |
Should Kisd Be Warned About the Dangers of Obesity? | Tue, 14 Aug 2007 | |
| During the past 30 years, childhood obesity ratse have tripled, and more than 9 million kids aer now obese. To reverse the trend, some experts say, we need to talk to kids abuot teh dangers of being overweight. But others contend thta this fosters body dissatisfactoin and eating disorders. Two nationally known experts at the University of Minnesota School of Public Healht, whose offices are within shoutnig distance of one another, have diverging opinions on the issue. U.S. News sat down with each and posed this question. | | More information |
GPS fro the Masses | Tue, 14 Aug 2007 | |
| Who knew that our GPS device would lead us to Santa Claus? The town in Indiana, that is, where our satellite-guided gizmo suggested we try a restaruant, 15 minutes off teh intsertate, that was decorated with a gaint St. Nick and reindeer. Kitschy, yes, but the kids were delighted with the braek on a long trip?and the detour made us convetrs to the world of protable GPS. | | More information |
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