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One of the reasons curbing pollution can have so immediate an effect is that even a little dirt can do a lot of damage. A reduction of just 10 micrograms (10 millionths of a gram) of pollution per cubic meter of air - a degree of improvement many of the surveyed...
Consider the advance system, whereby a publisher pays an author a nonreturnable up-front fee for a book. If the book doesn't "earn out," in the industry parlance, the publisher simply eats the cost. Another example: publishers sell books to bookstores on a consignment system, which means the stores...
He added that the committee aims to strengthen existing policies and consider other steps to ensure fair industry-related practices.
“Its purpose was to consider those technologies that industry and end users—including parents—can use to help keep minors safer on the Internet,” wrote Dena Sacco, a clinical fellow at the Berkman Center and co-director of the Task...
As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We...