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...said. “I watch it on YouTube.” Stereotypical Harvard types—including a guy with his glasses taped together Harry-Potter style and a man who read Plato’s “Protagoras and Meno,” throughout a good chunk of the show—and more random visitors alike seemed to enjoy it, cheering and laughing throughout According to the show’s website, the fourth season will debut online next week...
GOING BACK TO THE FUTURE? Tom Cruise surprised Hollywood last week with a prewedding announcement: the box-office bigwig just bought a sizable chunk of United Artists, the once venerable movie studio whose fortune seems to rise and fall with its icons...
...Furthermore, there's good reason to believe that the current generation of young adults are fleeing church in greater numbers and will be harder to lure back than previous ones. Although 61% of people in the 20-29 age group participated in church activities during their teens, that entire chunk now falls into the spiritually disengaged category. Moreover, only a third of 20-somethings who are parents regularly take their children to church, compared with 40% of parents in their 30s and half of parents who are 40 or older. "Even the impulse of parenthood-when people's desire...
...Twenty years ago, these haunted houses were smaller and open for a shorter period of time, often for charity. Today, attractions in this $300 million industry require anywhere from $150,000 to $400,000 to be worth a howl. Marketing, particularly web sites, and advertising eat up a chunk of this, while sophisticated props like animatronics (robotic creatures) might run as high as $16,000 for a lifelike monster. Some places create entirely new sets each year. Some scenes take two to three years to build and can cost anywhere from $10,000 to $100,000, according to Amber Arnett...
...been able to keep their costs down could gain an advantage over rivals, since the disparity between those paying the highest price for health care and those paying the lowest is estimated at $3,000 per employee. For a firm of 10,000 workers, that's $30 million, a chunk of change that would have nearly any executive sweating his competitiveness...