Word: actualizations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Result of? Due to? Critics were quick to ask how the researchers could impute causality when no actual TV watching was ever measured. "The standard interpretation of this type of analysis is that this is cause and effect," Waldman insists, adding that the 67-page study has been read by "half a dozen top-notch health economists...
...Result of? Due to? How can these researchers suggest causality when no actual TV watching was ever measured? "The standard interpretation of this type of analysis is that this is cause and effect," Waldman insists, adding that the 67-page study has been read by "half a dozen topnotch health economists...
Awkward Harvard students, always eager to avoid actual social interaction, seem to love any technology that allows them to skirt face-to-face communication. The Facebook lets us eschew talking for poking, and now, a Somerville company has decided to jump on the bandwagon. Enter Wiffiti, LocaModa’s brainchild, a program made up of a series of digital billboards in public locations where people can post text messages for free, displaying their messages for all to see. The posts appear in random positions and different sizes on the board, reminiscent of writings on a bathroom wall. Harvardians itching...
...specifically refer to the practice and they require proving intent and financial damages, a bar prosecutors often can't meet. Winning these kinds of cases can be difficult, says Robert Gellman, a Washington-based privacy consultant, because "with most privacy suits it's hard to prove you were actually damaged if you didn't lose your job or if it [the violation] didn't cost you money. It's not enough to show you were upset." Currently, the Federal Trade Commission has authority to bring suits, but they can only issue injunctions to stop the behavior and sue for illegitimate...
...forcing him to wait several hours for a tow truck to arrive and take him back to Boston.Winston says that he finds the system “ridiculous” because he thinks that students who are summoned for jury duty are often not selected to serve in the actual trial.But Visiting Professor of Law Shari S. Diamond says that students are just as likely to be chosen as anybody else. “The rap is that [students] are not going to be selected because you are too bright, and people are going to be afraid...