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...Websites) reveals that visits to the collection increased 10.1% from the same period in 2007 to now and over 16.4% from 2006. Examining retail - from electronics to apparel and books to music, the category growing the fastest is sites that help us compare prices across multiple shopping sites. Online comparison shopping engines such as Shopzilla, Shopping.com and Pricegrabber, have, as a category, increased at a rate of 59.9% over the previous year...
...rare in this part of the country, they can be just as powerful as those in other parts of the world. The so-called New Madrid series of earthquakes in 1811 and 1812, for instance, are believed to have been on a scale of 8.0 or higher (by comparison, the 1994 Northridge earthquake in California had a 6.7 magnitude). And historically, earthquakes in the Midwest convulse much greater territory than their equivalents in California. Another problem: the region is also affected by the Wabash Seismic Zone. An April 18, 2008, earthquake from that zone, centered near Belmont, Ill., 128 miles...
...latest version of the popular browser, which runs on virtually any computer. An open-source project organized by Mozilla (the descendants of the Netscape browser), Firefox is the world's second-most popular browser; Microsoft's Internet Explorer occupies the top slot. Of course, that's hardly a fair comparison, since virtually all Windows PCs ship with IE, giving it a 72% share of the browser market. Firefox, which is typically downloaded rather than factory installed, has a 17% market share, followed by Apple's Safari...
...tradition of winning the regatta,” Kovacs said. “It was nice to continue the tradition.” He went on to take fourth place at the national singlehanded regatta in November. But Kovacs’ individual honors of the fall pale in comparison to what he brought to the team in the spring. Along with his crew of three years, senior Elyse Dolbec, Kovacs led the Harvard co-ed team to not one, but two national berths. Kovacs and Dolbec’s second-place finish in the A-division at April?...
...Harvard housing leaves something to be desired, especially by comparison to Yale, which will soon complete an extensive renovation of its 12 residential colleges, or Princeton, which plans to construct a brand new $100 million dormitory...