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...hasn't always been such a massive deal. The first show, held in New York City in 1967, fit cozily into showrooms at the New York Hilton and the Americana hotel. Around 20,000 people showed up, eager to see pocket-sized radios, televisions with integrated circuits and new tape recorder models. The following year, CES spread to nine floors across three New York hotels and attendees were buzzing about devices such as a tiny radio that could be worn on the wrist and a "Portable Executive Telephone" that cost more than $2,000, weighed 19 pounds and required users...
When George W. Bush decided in late 2007 to make a final-year push for Middle East peace, he turned to retired Marine general James L. Jones for help. But after two months as Bush's Middle East envoy, Jones concluded that brokering a deal between Israel and the Palestinians inside of 12 months was, in his words, a "grandiose hope." So Jones turned his attention to the more modest goal of making peace in one city in the Palestinian-controlled West Bank...
...software to your PlayStation, you log in and create an avatar, which you pilot using your PlayStation controller. Much like the Wii system, your avatar's features are customizable--within limits. Want your character to be 8 ft. (2.4 m) tall? Forget it. Humans are sized like the real deal. No really enormous noses either. Your character can't even be as fat as your average tech-gossip blogger, since only the slightest of beer guts is permitted in Home. And if you want to create a female avatar, she's got to look like something from Playboy, circa...
...questions about legitimacy with hefty dividends and creates the illusion of solvency by paying off early investors with capital raised from later entrants--are named after Boston businessman Charles Ponzi. From 1919 to 1920, the Italian immigrant coaxed thousands of people into sinking millions of dollars into a complex deal involving international postage rates, which he said would earn a 50% profit in 90 days...
Despite University President Drew G. Faust’s announcement in December that Harvard might slow down the timeline for parts of the Allston expansion, the University closed a deal the day after Christmas that added an additional piece of land to its current real estate holdings, according to an e-mail statement obtained by The Crimson...