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...internet search engines are a spookily accurate digital barometer of contemporary celebrity - in 2007, Google's Top Ten Search terms included Britney Spears, Anna Nicole Smith and Paris Hilton; Gordon Brown didn't feature - Tussaud's is a clunkier analog version of the same thing. It conducts its own polling among its patrons (most visitors come from Britain, Germany, India and the U.S.) and also conducts wider market research to decide exactly which prominent people, living or dead, should be immortalized in a kind of tallow known as "Japan wax". Popularity among the patrons was what won Bollywood star Salman...
...economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months." That's the semiofficial definition of a recession, courtesy of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private think tank that since 1929 has determined the start and end dates of U.S. downturns. A clearer but clunkier standard is two straight quarters of declining gross domestic product. Or there's Harry Truman's classic definition: "It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours...
Indeed, this Grease holds up a lot better than I would have imagined. I saw the original production in the '70s, and back then it seemed a pretty lame attempt to cash in on the still relatively new vogue for '50s nostalgia. Today, after a hundred clunkier send-ups of the period (we're twice as many years removed from Grease, which opened on Broadway in 1972, as the original show was from the doo-wop era it poked fun at), the show has the purity of an archetype, and even a few serious points to make about the adolescent...
...Associates, is based in Harvard, Mass., turned himself into one of the nation's foremost experts on solar buildings. His initial breakthrough came in 1980, when he found a manufacturer to build his "integrated" solar roof. The first of its kind, it provided an alternative to the costlier--and clunkier--solar panels that are just slapped onto rooftops...
...mouse does have some nifty technology. Its scroll wheel is actually more of a track ball, capable of wiggling a page both up and down and side to side in a fairly fluid motion. Other mouse makers have clunkier separate controls rather than a smooth combined one. Also, touch sensitivity means that the mouse simply knows what you meant right click or middle click or left click. There's no need for separate buttons handling each click...