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...Rakovitzky, a manager at Hummus Place in New York City, says customers who can already access websites won't want an app for each restaurant or business they frequent. Rather than apps catering to existing customers, Rakovitzky says, the more useful apps may be those that aggregate and filter area restaurants or businesses, introducing them to new consumers who are nearby. And though Apple sold more than 5 million iPhones in the second quarter of 2009, 4 out of 5 Americans still don't have a smartphone. Apps aren't yet for everyone...
...Khan and his partners, who include former Granta editor Ian Jack, first had to lay down the journal's parameters. "The concept of Asia is tricky because it's an idea as much as a geographical area," says Chris Wood, who took on the role of the ALR's editor in chief in 2007. "We asked ourselves, Can we actually call ourselves the Asia Literary Review? What are our boundaries? Do we include Constantinople, Australia? Do we limit ourselves to Asians writing about Asia?" In the end, the ALR decided not to opt for a mission statement but to keep...
...college rankings floating around, there's still one area students and parents can't find much concrete info about: how much an undergraduate degree will pay off. Enter PayScale.com, which claims to be the world's largest salary survey. Its 2009 College Salary Report uses data supplied by 1.2 million visitors who went to the site and plugged in all sorts of info to find out whether their salary was in line with those of people doing the same kind of work in their geographic area...
...last year of the civil war was particularly perilous for the shrine. The military had begun a multipronged advance into the Tiger-controlled area in late 2007, and Madhu was about six miles (10 km) north of the line. Earlier that year, 10,000 people were still taking refuge in the church compound, believing the Virgin would protect them. But by February 2008, recalls the Rev. S. Emilianuspillai, then caretaker of the shrine, it was clear that the shrine itself was in danger - and part of the war. On April 3, 2008, fighting had isolated 17 people at the shrine...
...Among the three is a renowned American alpinist who might have been Pérez's greatest hope. Fabrizio Zangrilli, 36, was in the area because he recently finished guiding a climb of K2. "Fabrizio is so acclimatized, and his skill set is so high, that he's probably the only guy situated to pull this off," says Jordan Campbell, spokesman for Marmot Mountain Works, an outdoor-equipment company that sponsors Zangrilli. "He's going to have to climb light and fast and maybe carry Pérez over his shoulder to get him down. But he's done...