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...baseball crowns either the Phillies or the Tampa Bay Rays as world champions this month, its offseason will test the resilience of the sports economy. Will ticket purchases for 2009 drop? And will free agents command the same salaries? Legends like Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez, the prime catch in the free-agent market, will always break the bank. But don't expect those left-handed middle relievers to score the same ludicrous contracts as in recent years. "Player salaries are extremely sensitive to market conditions," says Stanford University economist Roger Noll. "These players are going to get paid...
...When I got to Harvard, keeping up with my shows was harder, but with Hulu.com and a little hard work I make it work every week. I actually make schedules around being able to catch up on the shows I’ve missed, and most of the time my favorite shows are a higher priority than homework. So far this year, my roommate has returned every single night to find me with headphones on, propped up on pillows in my bed staring intently at my computer...
...less accessible than other types of humor? My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not. I wanted to create the kind of dizzying sense that there is a deranged person just speaking and speaking and speaking. If you catch the references, all the better. If you are tempted to try to look up some of the references, it might deepen your experience and you might find jokes that you hadn't gotten before. This is obviously a risky area of humor and is not always funny to people...
...offsets the rest - will go green of their own accord, and customers may reward them for it. Other companies will need encouragement - like the system in place in Japan, where the ambitious levels of efficiency achieved by industry leaders are used to force the bottom of the table to catch up. For his part, Shapiro prefers "the carrot to the stick," pointing out that energy efficiency has been increasing, even without strong mandatory standards. But as our dependence on consumer electronics grows, we can't afford to let the industry fall behind. "If everyone comes together, you can build...
...Chris Lorditch stepped in, grabbing a 67-yard touchdown pass in week three en route to a 106-yard performance in Harvard’s 27-13 victory over Lafayette.But Lorditch suffered the same fate as Iannuzzi, and freshman Adam Chrissis took the mantle with a 67-yard touchdown catch of his own in last week’s game against Cornell that garnered him Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors.Somehow lost in the fanfare surrounding this wideout carousel is junior Matt Luft. After two years under the wing and shadow of fellow Thousand Oaks High School graduate Corey...