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...system would include four data collection strategies: “self-reporting” allowing instructors to add information through an HCBIS account; “bulk upload,” permitting departments to upload textbook information for multiple courses at once; “data mining from syllabi,” requiring the manual input of information from course syllabi; and simple student reporting...
...Kajeet, which is selling on the web and hits retail stores such as Best Buy in March, is a pay-as-you go service that offers a menu of customization options for kids and parents. Through its "walleting" system, a parent deposits money into an account that allows kids to buy whatever they want from Kajeet - no less than nine SpongeBob ringtones to choose from ($2 each), celebrity wallpaper offerings, an ever-changing list of games, texting services and, yes, phone calls. If a kid's Kajeet allowance is $20 a month and he blows...
...statin group (about 30% fewer in one real-world trial). Reducing the risk by a third sounds like a lot, which is one reason many hundreds of thousands of men with no sign of heart disease take statins. But that number is meaningless unless you take into account the percentage of men in both groups who have heart attacks in the first place. If those people represent only a tiny fraction of the two populations, an improvement of 30% isn't much--maybe one heart attack fewer in a group of thousands...
...While Google employees joked about the logo internally, a spokesperson insisted that "true romantics will always read it as 'Google.'" To account for poor spellers outside its ranks, Google maintains Gogle.com and Gooogle.com, but not Oogle.com or Googe.com. Maybe now that will change...
...Franken. You'll be glad you did!" In his possibly ironic role as a relentless self-promoter, he proclaimed the 1980s "the Al Franken Decade." In 1999 he published Why Not Me?: The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency, the myopically prophetic account of how he won the 2000 election and shortly thereafter lost the presidency (though his attempt to personally kill Saddam Hussein sounds like a natural poll-gooser, doesn...