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...Usually he selects books, CDs and dvds for his collection, but he also claims to have bought such fanciful items as a box of 10,000 condoms. "You've got to find a site with good stuff, a bad system and stupid people," he advises. It's a pretty common combination. Today, in 15 minutes, he finds an amenable online stereo store in Hungary and a Canadian site selling books on nudist beaches and getaways...
...tiny chips that are replacing bar codes. They wirelessly transmit information about themselves, making it easier to track, say, what's in stock in a store. Battery-powered RFID tags can transmit farther than non-battery-powered versions and push RFID signals through liquid and aluminum cans--two common signal stoppers in supermarkets. The market potential is in the billions if RFID technology expands as predicted...
...Biber reports that before joining TFA, ten percent of corps members considered teaching after college. But two-thirds of corps members continue teaching following their two years in TFA, with one-third of alumni working in low-income communities.Still, Biber recognizes the importance of all career fields to the common goal of improving the country’s public school system and, in turn, the country as a whole. “We believe that in order to really fix social justice, we need leaders in education reform but we also need people in law and in policy...
...Friar’s Club Roast: Hire celebrity impersonators to roast you and your friends in your common room. $100 doesn’t stretch too far, so instead of a Dane Cook impersonator, you might have to actually put up with Dane Cook...
...becomes an ‘aspirational’ brand.”But at some point, “aspirational” becomes too impractical—especially for a consumer group so driven by what’s tangible and immediate that even the slightest variation from common goods can make it irrelevant.DID SOMEONE ORDER A PIZZA?While these concerns are certainly real—perhaps even widespread—many brand reps generally report positive feedback from their fellow students. McGugan, who was the Papa John’s pizza campus rep for three semesters before leaving...