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...advertising industry is up against the largest problem it has faced since perhaps when it found a way to reach a national audience in magazines in the early 20th century. TV, cable, magazines and online properties are all attractive ways to reach consumers, but none of them is exhibiting the kind of growth that TV did in the 1960s and the Internet did from 1997 to 2006. People are spending their time on YouTube and Twitter now. Neither has any reason to recommend it as a way to reach people to sell products or services. The roadside billboard is about...
...good news. It means that we can make enormous advances in national energy efficiency - and controlling carbon emissions - simply by improving the grid, before we even begin to clean up our energy sources. The key is to add 21st century speed and intelligence (i.e., the Internet) to the 20th century infrastructure of the power grid - voilà, a "smart grid." The result would be a system that allows power utilities to remotely detect and respond to outages; that lets consumers program their appliances to use electricity when it's most abundant, allowing power companies to reduce waste; and through which...
...turns out that the only way to get tickets for this Lady Gaga-Kelly Clarkson double header is through T-mobile. Starting April 20th they are giving tickets (which are free, remember?) away at two locations--the T-mobile store at 375 Washington Street in Boston and the store at South Shore Plaza in Braintree. But beware-- in order to get a ticket you have to either own a Sidekick already, buy one, or play some kind of game (we hear ring toss is popular...
...United States, plundered Latin America's resources and helped create a perpetual state of widespread poverty and wealth disparity. From the obliteration of indigenous people by Spanish conquistadors to the destructive cycles of foreign debt, investment and capitalism, Galeano lays out the Latin American saga from 1492 to the 20th century. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...northeast Scotland to embark on a grand journey to Harvard. Shuffling restlessly in my economy class seat thousands of feet above the Atlantic Ocean, I could barely contain my excitement—here I was, preparing to study and compete in the country that had dominated athleticism in the 20th century: the country of a defiant Jesse Owens, running in the face of Nazi Aryanization; the country where Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali; the country that bore witness to the “Miracle on Ice”.Only when I stepped off the plane and took my first tentative...