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...season to be shopping for best-selling books. Thanks to an almost comical price war that has broken out among a few of the country's retail giants, more people may be reading over the holidays. On Oct. 15, Walmart, the world's largest retailer, announced it was lowering its online preorder price for 10 new book releases. The new cost: a measly $10. The titles include the Sarah Palin memoir Going Rogue, John Grisham's Ford Country and Michael Crichton's Pirate Latitudes. Not to be outdone, Amazon.com matched Walmart's price on the same books. Walmart then lowered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walmart, Target, Amazon: Book Price War Heats Up | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

Harvard's other matches against BU, Emerson, and UMass Amherst proceeded less smoothly. In the words of Rush, "we were pulverized in the first one, beaten in the second one, and almost won the third one." Rush said that Harvard had been leading 30-10, but the appearance and capture of the Snitch was a game-changer, resulting in a 30-40 scoreboard (doesn't that sound suspiciously like Harry Potter's uncanny ability to save his team heroically, in just about every match...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang | Title: Harvard beats Yale—The (Quidditch) Game | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

Cambridge’s subpar standardized testing results (LINK), and its subsequent designation as “in need of improvement” by the federal government, have catapulted the issue of student achievement to the forefront of almost every candidate’s platform...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe and Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: School Committee Elections Near | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...line for those who were pregnant or with severe health conditions and received one of only 60 doses of the thimerosal-free vaccine recommended for pregnant women. About half an hour after I got my shot, they ran out of this version of the vaccine. The whole process took almost two hours. (See what you need to know about the H1N1 vaccine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting for the Vaccine: An H1N1 Emergency | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

...tailoring health plans to get the most bang for the buck. And many employees were under the false assumption that their health benefits were mostly paid for by their employers. As the Washington Post's Ezra Klein recently pointed out, if health-insurance costs were lower, workers would almost certainly earn more in salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Employer-Based Insurance: Paying More, Getting Less | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

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