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Cheap and crumbling spaces, however, often attract a city's most creative people. A vibrant artist community has settled into the decrepit industrial landscape around the canal, and some of its members are breathing a sigh of relief in the wake of the EPA decision. High-end-condo development "presents a danger of a different sort," says Tamara Pittman, who works at the Proteus Gowanus art gallery. Pittman says she knows the canal needs to be cleaned up but still can't help admiring its "beautiful neglect." The artists who have been attracted to the area's preserved detritus...
...business model that starts with mountains of user-behavior data, culled from search engines, YouTube and Demand's websites. To make money, the company also needed to factor in advertising data and figure out which keywords are the most lucrative to create content around. All this gets fed into an algorithm that spits out only the most-in-demand story ideas, no human guesswork required. Sometimes the results make sense ("Nightlife in Paris," for example), but the computer often generates cryptic or oddly specific titles as well, like "How to Start a Lace-Wig Business in Maryland...
Starbucks, which has been the target of similar pro-gun displays in other states, finds itself caught in the middle. The company issued a statement saying that "the political, policy and legal debates around these issues belong in the legislatures and courts, not in our stores." Gun opponents want Starbucks to exercise its legal authority to ban gun displays on its property, as Peet's Coffee & Tea and California Pizza Kitchen have done. "Guns are not protest signs," says Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. But because California law prohibits openly carried guns from being...
...latest clash in a decades-long sectarian rift resulted in the March 7 massacre of several hundred Nigerians, including unarmed women and children. The killings took place mainly in villages around Jos, a city that sits on a cultural fault line that runs between the Muslim north and Christian south. Conflicts between the two groups have killed thousands over the past decade. This time, the dead were mainly Christians, targeted in retaliation for some 300 Muslim deaths near Jos in January...
...cubicle dwellers alike navigate the maze of March Madness seeding brackets trying to predict the winner in their office pools. Last March, President Obama's bracket received as much scrutiny as his economic policies. The tournament season has grown so mad, in fact, that a cottage industry has sprouted around the so-called science of forecasting which teams will make the cut, an enterprise now known as bracketology...