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...edition was released Dec. 1, and this year Twitter was the big winner. The social-networking site was the fastest-rising search query, beating out Web rivals Facebook (No. 3) and Hulu (No. 4) for the top spot. But absent the cybertrifecta, the 2009 list is predictably grim. In a year that saw the "Summer of Death," Michael Jackson was the second fastest-rising term, and Natasha Richardson (No. 8) and Farrah Fawcett (No. 9) made the top 10. The only celebrity who's still among us that managed to crack the list? Lady Gaga, who catapulted to fame this...
Analysts caution that the winners on Black Friday will not necessarily be the champions on Dec. 31. Tom Stemberg, former CEO and founder of Staples, and now managing partner of the Highland Consumer Fund, sees no correlation between Black Friday sales and a retailer's ultimate success or failure over the holiday season. "Black Friday sales are about as meaningful as Groundhog Day is to the weather forecast," says Stemberg. "What happens is every retailer blows his brains out with these door-crasher deals trying to generate traffic...
That message changed Dec. 2 at 12:30 p.m. ET, when the government finally made available the first 13 stem-cell lines that researchers can study with federal funds. Researchers had been awaiting the announcement since March 9, when President Obama signed an Executive Order lifting the ban that former President George W. Bush had placed on government support of human-embryonic-stem-cell research. The previous Administration had restricted federally funded studies to only the dozen or so stem-cell lines that had been created before Aug. 9, 2001. The new policy allows scientists to experiment with any existing...
Yenawine developed the idea of “A Day Without Art,” which began on Dec. 1, 1989, as a day when museums would close or conceal certain works in order to reflect on the impact of AIDS on the art community...
This guideline will be voted on at the next meeting on Dec...