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...spreads by diffusion as roommates point out interesting or humorous articles to friends over breakfast. To top it off, the price point was a steal. The Times would have footed the bill for delivery, and Harvard would have received eighty newspapers for ten weeks for just over $1,700 dollars, amounting to just 40 cents a copy (the Times sells for a dollar on newsstands). The UC chose not to fund copies of The Times partly in order to have more funds for student groups. The UC’s annual budget is about $410,000, which, after setting aside...
...change could be bad news for industries with time-sensitive data like travel schedules, bank transactions and stock market purchases. If computers are off by an hour, check receipts could be logged at the wrong time, million-dollar stock trades could be missed and automated equipment in emergency rooms or manufacturing plants could malfunction - to name some worst-case scenarios. There's also the worry of cascading failures. "Changing the time zone in some applications might throw others out of whack," says Ben Kus, senior technology director at BigFix, a computer management firm. Even if fears of Y2K hysteria...
...what Publishers Weekly senior religion editor Lynn Garrett calls the Da Vinci Code effect. "Speculative histories were out there before Dan Brown wrote," says Garrett. "But they didn't make the best-seller lists and their authors didn't go on The Daily Show." Or receive a million-dollar paycheck, as was rumored in a recent case...
...Garrett cautions that "it's not simply following the dollar. Writing popularly, I think, they feel freer." Scholars are not working more speculatively because Dan Brown made money. His success allows them to write profitably from their adventurous hearts. Mark Tauber, vice president of HarperSanFrancisco, which publishes many of them (HSF did Family Tomb), notes that these academics came of age during the translation of the Nag Hammadi "library" and the Dead Sea Scrolls, troves that opened a window to unorthodox faith during and after Jesus' life that the Bible and church fathers only hinted at or condemned. The authors...
...once may have considered yourselves to be; you are merely healthy participants in a new society of online connectivity! At least, that’s what Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams tell us in “Wikinomics,” the printed result of a nine-million dollar research project on what geeks and business gurus alike call “Web 2.0.” The argument in this interesting but highly redundant book is simple: when we all work together and share, we all win. If that sounds like the same thing that our preschool teachers...