Word: dotting
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...with your friends in real-time.” A new chat bar appears at the bottom of the user’s browser when signed into Facebook, showing the online status of the user and other friends signed on the networking site. Availability is indicated by a green dot similar to the one on Google’s Gmail chat. Facebook acknowledged yesterday on its blog post that it would be “rolling this out slowly going forward.” As of yesterday afternoon, the Harvard Facebook network was one of a handful of other Ivies...
...Even during The Great Depression, Americans managed to scrape together enough nickels to take in escapist fare like Marx Brothers comedies and monster flicks. Box office grosses rose during five of the last seven economic downturns in the U.S. - including the '70s oil crisis and the burst of the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s. It's not just a ticket price bump that accounts for the extra dough, either - the total number of movies people see in a year tends to rise in recessionary periods...
...Globalization, with all of its possibilities for growth and advancement, as well as its potential for cultural loss, also provides the book’s irony and humor. The title “Elvis is Titanic” refers to one of the many East-meets-West exchanges that dot the book: Elvis and the movie Titanic are both well known in Iraq—select items of American culture that were readily available in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The memory of the former dictator is everywhere; as Klaus pushes his students to question globalization and its effects...
...science professors say that the trend is not troubling. In a report aired on National Public Radio (NPR) on Wednesday, one correspondent said that computer science programs across the country are facing an “enrollment crisis.” NPR reported that since the “dot-com” boom ended in 2001, the number of concentrators has been decreasing and now the number has reached its lowest national level. But co-director of Undergraduate Studies in Computer Science Steven J. Gortler said the number of computer science concentrators has been increasing in recent years...
...science professors say that the trend is not troubling. In a report aired on National Public Radio (NPR) on Wednesday, one correspondent said that computer science programs across the country are facing an “enrollment crisis.” NPR reported that since the “dot-com” boom ended in 2001, the number of concentrators has been decreasing and now the number has reached its lowest national level. But co-director of Undergraduate Studies in Computer Science Steven J. Gortler said the number of computer science concentrators has been increasing in recent years...