Word: caking
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...analysts think The Weather Channel acquisition was an effort to spruce up NBC's online portfolio (which also includes MSNBC.com and CNBC.com) before selling the entertainment arm to a digital media company such as Google (which owns YouTube) or Apple. "The Weather Channel would add some icing to the cake," says Nicholas Heymann, an analyst for Sterne Agee & Leach. As syndication fees have evaporated and profit margins have thinned, TV companies have become less attractive assets. GE "has to start lighting a fire under its stock," notes Heymann...
...countries that know what they're doing with food--you have some kind of bread substance and coffee and move on. So how did sausage and Pop-Tarts become O.K.? It's not as if you can send your kids to school after a plate of hot dogs and cake. Is there any logic to this...
...More Children for China? In his facile commentary "The Family Way," Joshua Kurlantzick makes ending China's one-child policy sound as easy as baking a cake [June 9]. He airily dismisses the economic and other benefits of controlling a cripplingly high birth rate. Certainly, some consequences of the one-child policy are repellent from a First-World perspective, but emotions and poorly thought-through conclusions make little contribution to informed debate. Kurlantzick implicitly contradicts himself, foreseeing "a [future] severe labor shortage" while reminding us that in the past, "unequal sex ratios, which left men idle, contributed to armed rebellion...
...late March, Burgos' family held a celebration for what would have been his 38th birthday at the Carmelite convent where Edita Burgos works. As she sat in the convent's sunlit courtyard, in front on an untouched chocolate cake, a procession of careworn middle-aged women came up to her. They were, she explained, mothers of other activists who have vanished. When the women had gone, Burgos continued: "This is not about Jonas alone. They are killing the future leaders of our country. If you kill these people, who will be left...
...with hundreds of undergraduates at Harvard indicate that these final two reasons are the key factors behind economics’ popularity. Students often say that in contrast to most settings, choosing a concentration does not involve a tradeoff: economics is both practical and interesting. Economics majors can have their cake...