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...those online markets: the Hollywood Stock Exchange, the Iowa Electronic Markets, Yahoo's Tech Buzz Game and PublicGyan. InTrade, run by the Trade Exchange Network, an Irish firm, cleared 50,000 contracts last month (including 10% odds that al-Zarqawi will be caught in 2005). "There's a tremendous demand for prediction," says Justin Wolfers, a markets expert at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. "I can bet on the World Series or the next presidential election...
Skocpol reiterated her commitment to full funding of graduate students in order to remain competitive with graduate programs at other schools. She emphasized that funding will continue regardless of how the curricular review changes the demand for graduate student teaching fellows...
...owners of Felipe’s Taqueria are seeking to extend the restaurant’s operating hours until 4 a.m. on weekends in response to growing student demand. The popular Square restaurant is slated to appear before the Cambridge License Commission (CLC) on Nov. 29 to request keeping its doors open until 2 a.m. on weekdays and 4 a.m. on weekends. But amidst reported violations of its present license—which allows Felipe’s to stay open until midnight on weekdays and 2 a.m. on weekends—the restaurant faces disciplinary action, which could include...
...fusion of northern technique and southern hardware seems to be paying dividends. Somali pirates now demand, and often receive, hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom, according to the Piracy Reporting Center's Choong. With that sort of money the pirates "can afford to buy themselves some pretty nice boats," says Choong, and hence extend the range of their seizures...
...September, negotiations to obtain the crew's release had foundered. The hijackers had increased their ransom demand and reneged on an agreement to allow the rice to be handed over to the Somali government. When the Semlow's generator ran out of oil, the pirates accused the crew of hoarding it. One Somali fired a shot through the window on the bridge. "We thought this trip was the end of our lives," remembered able seaman Rashid Juma Mwatuga, 42. In late September the Ibn Batuta, an Egyptian ship carrying cement, appeared on the horizon. "The pirates told me they were...