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...iTunes App Store launched. Pangea started out selling it for $9.99. "The iPhone App Store has been a textbook example of supply and demand because at first there was a huge demand for the new apps, but there was a very small supply of them - only a few dozen games," founder Brian Greenstone told me. "So we could charge $9.99 easily for them...
...highlight the unpopularity of a potential rescue package, a dozen or so protesters in the back of the room interrupted the hearing an hour later: "The bailout is a sell out! The poor are suffering!" they chanted. A few yelled additional complaints: "The homeless! The homeless!" "Money off the poor people's backs!" "Put the money in the food banks where people need...
...between Iraq and the U.S. is clear--complete troop withdrawal by the end of 2011. But with that pullback comes the end of immunity from Iraqi law for U.S. contractors. Private-security employees have been looked upon with increasing disfavor since last fall's shooting of more than a dozen Iraqis by Blackwater guards. It is unclear whether U.S. contractors will be held responsible for any past offenses...
...despite the outreach, response to the district’s efforts appears to have been “sparse,” Gee said. Although he was not present at all of the locations, he said that the highest turnout he saw at a single meeting was about a dozen people...
...more academic approach. “Nature vs. Nurture: A Panel Discussion on the Origins of Male Violence” was held in front of about sixty men and women last night to accompany the white ribbon campaign. Among them, in jacket and tie, were over a dozen members of the Phoenix final club. “Those of you who have done work with male violence know the nature versus nurture argument comes up all the time. But it’s always brought up to end debate,” said Gordon W. Braxton, a prevention specialist...