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...Yates oeuvre is in popular demand. Blake, his biographer, notes that an Everyman's Library edition of the author's best work has just been published. "There's an introduction by Richard Price, who was a student of Yates," says Blake. "Price says something like, because Yates had such integrity, and was so self-effacing, that he'd be pissed off by this acclaim." He laughs. "Nothing could be further from the truth. Nothing is more absurd. Yates longed to have more readers, and he knew that he deserved to have more readers." And now he does...
...year-over-year sales. The average jump was 16%. (The survey was taken in August, before the financial meltdown. Auto-industry economists say repair growth slowed in the fourth quarter as customers deferred big-ticket maintenance jobs during the worst months of the downturn, and that pent-up demand will lift the numbers in '09.) (See pictures of the remains of Detroit: America's fading Motor City...
...only behavioral research lab at Harvard that uses monkeys. He said that with only 40 monkeys in residence, the sample size for his experiments is quite small. “Lots of the questions that I and my students have become interested in are questions that demand a different kind of species and testing environment,” said Hauser. He said they’d gotten to a point when they needed a bigger sample size, which could be provided by dogs that, unlike monkeys, would be brought by volunteers...
...little shred of each part...You need to put them together to figure out the whole wiring diagram.”But the simple concept requires massive volumes of data—far beyond the capacity of current technologies. According to Sanes, mapping a human brain would demand enough storage space to host all the photos on Facebook millions of times over—now a wildly unrealistic demand.“Everything” will have to advance before such data can be processed, Sanes says. More powerful computers will need to be used, as well as perhaps some...
...from people, from engaging with people,” Burrell said. He added that social media, more than any other form of communication, excels in “shortening the distance between creator and consumer.” As a celebrity in the modern world where information is on-demand 24 hours a day, Burrell said that social media like Twitter allows him to interact directly with the 90,000 fans that follow it. “I would rather control my persona than to put my life or my persona in the hands of others...