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...York Times Co., management put on mourning clothes for their earnings call. Revenue fell a little over 18%, which was closer to Yahoo!'s drop than champions of Internet advertising would like. Advertising revenue killed the newspaper company's sales by dropping 27%, to $335 million. Fans of paying for content will note that subscriber revenue was up 1%, to $229 million, but that money came from people buying physical papers and not online content. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...There is no denying that previous administrations helped to create the conditions from which our current crisis stems, but a closer inspection suggests that Democrats deserve the most blame. Both the Bush and Clinton administrations (but especially Clinton’s) recklessly pushed to expand home ownership, fuelling the bubble in housing prices and its collapse. Former President Bush’s failure to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac permitted the crisis in subprime mortgages to build, though congressional Democrats bear the lion’s share of blame for their obstructionism: They opposed a Bush administration proposal...
...table. This wasn’t in the folder! This wasn’t in the folder! How can I complete my group of multi-ethnic friends as seen in the admissions brochure? I head to the back. Look at that statue. John Adams! My favorite. A closer look...Shit! The alarm! Run, just run. They might rescind my admission—or hurt my chances of enrolling in Freshman Seminar 34[1/2]x: “Chastity in an Age of Cyber Warfare...
...define our identity." Another UC member, Amanda Lu '11 responded to Nuni saying, "I would like to be able to disagree with what I find to be beneficial to my constituents without being called a tyrant." Before the claws come out any further, FlyBy decided to take a closer look at what the property in contention has to offer. Take a gander after the jump...
...Dogs are very sensitive to human cues, such as following a finger to a target object.” While monkeys and chimpanzees have been used in similar studies, Hauser believes that dogs have a higher ability to follow such human cues. “Chimpanzees are much closer in many ways, in terms of genetics, but cannot follow this cue that we have been following since infancy.” While this mental sophistication might come as a surprise to some, an avid dog-lover attests to the study’s truth. “Of course...