Word: catering
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...some great advice from a high school baseball coach,” he says, “which was to pick your college as if baseball doesn’t exist there.”With this in mind, Kantrovitz looked for a program that could cater to his interests, academic as well as athletic. Harvard appeared to be such a place, and he visited the school hoping to see if it would be a good fit.“I didn’t know much about Kantrovitz,” Harvard baseball coach Joe Walsh says...
...survey of major paper redesigns in the last five years suggests that most papers either continued to slide or did worse after changing their design. Thus, back in 2006, when Facebook was still an upstart company trying to compete with MySpace, Zuckerberg had to tread more lightly to cater to his fledgling user base. With Facebook now as healthy as ever, Zuckerberg is free to change what he wants, when he wants...
...party's candidates are a mixed assortment: while he can boast of Latvia's former Prime Minister Guntars Krasts, he also has to cater for France's Philippe de Villiers, who heads the traditionalist Hunting, Fishing, Nature and Tradition (CPNT) parties. And Libertas is vague about its policies. Its website only lists a few slogans about opening up the E.U., and it has yet to unveil a manifesto. Apart from his attacks on the E.U.'s democratic deficit, Ganley has little to say about the issues that are most pressing in voters' minds, like jobs, economic recovery, and climate change...
...active users, such as Facebook, would become the new Comcast. Networks would thus pass the problem of garnering advertising revenue on to the new websites, who are already actively struggling to find a solution. With such alluring content, even that problem may evaporate more quickly. Other websites would cater to certain niches, such as gathering subscriptions and advertising for shows about doctors. This type of surgical precision in targeting high-quality viewers may allow for sustainable business models to crop...
...dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, drinking ayahuasca in the U.S. is illegal. But traditional use of the plant potion is permitted in much of South America. Its mecca is the Peruvian city of Iquitos, which hosts the annual International Amazonian Shamanism Conference and is home to about a dozen lodges that cater to curious foreigners. At first, local residents feared that a flood of stoned beatniks would turn Iquitos into an unruly rain-forest Woodstock. "I thought they'd be from the hippie graveyard, with tattoos and sunken faces," says Gerald Mayeaux, a Houston native who runs The Yellow Rose of Texas...