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Harvard Coach Katey Stone was in attendance, watching the game carefully, volunteering as a WHRB between-period analyst, and switching between U.S. and Canada cheers more often than anyone in the building...
More than 25 million Americans carry simple m-commerce devices like the one Mason uses to buy lunch, according to analyst David Krebs at Venture Development Corp. Most are motorists who whiz through tollbooths daily, paying their way with electronic passes attached behind their windshields. In North America, 6 million now use m-commerce to pay for gas and fast food, and their numbers are growing at 70% to 80% a year. Since 1997, 5 million ExxonMobil customers have paid for gas with just a wave from little Speedpass wands on their key rings. Phillips 66 and Shell announced their...
...will deactivate it and issue a new one with a new code. And those who use the electronic-purse system usually keep only two-figure sums of money in them. "It's not like you're gonna buy a 1948 roadster with a $99 account," says Jim Forbes, an analyst for consulting firm IDG, based in San Mateo, Calif...
...with London is damp-that and a reputation for giving succor to terrorist supporters. Britain has always had a habit of providing safe haven to political refugees; that's why Karl Marx is buried in Highgate cemetery. But in the past 20 years, says Neil Partrick, a Middle East analyst at the Royal United Services Institute, London has become "the capital of the Arab world." As they used to say in Britain: Whoever lost the Lebanese civil war, London won it. With Beirut in ruins, banks relocated from Lebanon; they were followed by Arabs from Saudi Arabia and the gulf...
...Bayer?s cholesterol-lowering medication. The company estimated that its withdrawal from sale could cost up to $704 million in lost profits this year. "Lipobay was the cornerstone of Bayer?s profitability, and its withdrawal has dramatic consequences for earnings now and in the future," said Guy Phillips, an analyst with the French bank BNP Paribas in London. Worse still, German prosecutors launched an investigation into whether Bayer withdrew Lipobay quickly enough after the medication was linked to those 52 fatalities...