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Advertisers love a winner, even if that winner has no real financial value as a business. That is why marketers are fooling around with MySpace and Facebook, so far with very little success. They will turn to Twitter because its annual user growth rate will probably hit 1,000%. But how does a marketer reach people who do nothing but send tiny 140-character messages into cyberspace? Trying to put a square peg into Twitter won't work, but a lot of capital will be wasted in proving that Twitter is a bad fit for advertising...
...Since these rules were implemented, the competition in both athletics and academics in American universities has intensified. According to a 2003 report by the NCAA, Division I-AA colleges, including Harvard, expanded annual athletics spending by ninety-one percent, from $3.94 million per school in 1993 to $7.53 million in 2003. The increase is dramatic even accounting for the rise of women’s sports during that period. A similar trend has occurred in academics. In 1993, the college accepted 15 percent of its applicants. Impressive by today’s standards, that rate is still more than twice...
...Altmaier’s basketball career hasn’t resulted in idle time. In addition to her genetics research, she is currently involved with the Entrepreneurship Forum, managing their annual I3 Harvard College Innovation Challenge. This summer, she will be working as a summer analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, a position she discovered at one of the OCS panels that she had the time to attend now that she was done with basketball...
...their diet." In fact, if you think that the study subjects drank way more sweetened beverages (25% of their daily energy requirements came from the sugar in their drinks) in this study than the average American, you might want to consider this: according to recent data from an annual government survey, Americans on average wash down 16% of their daily energy needs with sugared drinks - not that far off the 25% threshold set by Havel in the study...
...said. “It’s the quintessential Boston event.” Running a marathon has always been one of Siegel’s personal goals, leading her to decide to try the Boston Marathon—the world’s oldest annual marathon—which takes place on Patriots’ Day and draws about 20,000 competitors from around the world each year...