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...disappointed that we don’t have [a] license,” said Sukijthamapan of the difficulty her restaurant faces without the license. “We [are] below the other two Thai restaurants,” she added, referring to the business her restaurant received in comparison to 9 Tastes and Spice. While the CLC does not require the petition, Sukijthamapan said that she is asking customers to sign it in a show support, at her lawyer’s recommendation. Many of those customers agreed that the laws preventing Harvard Square businesses from selling beer, wine...
...better idea. Farecast.com uses fearsome computer power to predict the direction of plane fares. That helps travelers figure out the optimum time to buy a ticket. It was founded by Oren Etzioni, who created the Web's first meta-search site (it scans multiple search engines) and first shopping-comparison tool. Farecast uses an algorithm to crunch 100 billion prices in its database, then evaluates 200 attributes that affect plane fares. From those trillions of combinations, it figures out whether you should buy a ticket now or wait for prices to drop...
...CNBC pundit Jim Cramer scoffs at start-ups like Farecast as sizzle without substance. "It's like, so what? I could do that company," he says. Among Farecast's formidable Web 2.0 competitors is Kayak.com another rapidly growing travel search site with an even more muscular fare-comparison tool...
...provide McDonald with material as emotionally rich as Guettel does, making her inspired recreations of John Mayer’s facile “My Stupid Mouth” and Neil Young’s boring “My Heart” seem vapid in comparison...
...Once KSM was taken into custody in March 2003, a comparison of the hands shown in the video and KSM's own hands, along with other evidence, confirmed the FBI's suspicions. Then, under interrogation, KSM confessed, national security officials told TIME, admitting without remorse that he personally severed Pearl's head and telling interrogators he had to switch knives after the first one "got dull...