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...admit that even I had to look it up. What I found is that a recession is most commonly defined as two consecutive quarters of decline in gross domestic product (or GDP). In researching this column, I was surprised to discover that consumer spending represents over 70% of gross domestic product. This struck me as ironic because, according to Hitwise search data, consumers searching for "recession" are not even clear on what the term means: they're searching for the definition of "recession," just like...
...Winehouse, thanks to support from tuned-in record execs. "It's all very well to say bands can do it all themselves; some don't want to," says Max Hole, executive vice president of Universal Music Group International, which oversees Winehouse's label. Many now acting alone admit they got a leg up from a record company. "The only reason we could even get away with this," Radiohead's lead singer, Thom Yorke, said recently about selling its album directly to fans, "is that we've gone through the whole mill of the business in the first place...
...their wireless connections.In contrast, the River Houses seem to still be awaiting a flood of signal. Adams House had by far the worst wireless situation, with a reported 36 percent dissatisfied and 16 percent very dissatisfied, landing a majority of the residents in the unhappy column. Clavery residents even admit to trying to pick up non-Harvard network signals to increase wireless capabilities.Joshua A. Kroll ’09, president of the Harvard Computer Society (HCS), says he uses a desktop computer most of the time to avoid wireless woes. “I know that my roommates...
...funny. Popular belief seems to locate the sense of humor in an anatomical region conspicuously absent from the average female. Indeed, in 2007, researchers found that women expect less from jokes than men do. They laugh more and at weaker punchlines than their male counterparts, although, when pressed, they admit that they find fewer things actually funny. There are, apparently, evolutionary reasons for this—for males competing to pass along their genes, a sense of humor belonged in the arsenal right next to mammoth-hunting and the ability to make strange noises with their armpits. The strength...
...previous seal, which featured a similar Native American, this time naked and base, with a motto emerging from his mouth: “Come and help us.” There is a grim irony in this apostrophe to the Puritan mission civilisatrice, for, as any American must admit, the colonization of North America proceeded not under the mantle of aid but of annihilation. Within years of European contact, Massachusetts’ aboriginal people were decimated by disease and then finished off by military action...