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...clicked on the link - a disastrous decision. I'm not going to retrace the exact steps, because to do that, I would have to click on that link again, and I'm deathly afraid of it. Basically, as I remember, I registered for the site through a Windows Live hotmail address, and very early on in the process it asked if I would like to send along a similar message to every contact in my account. Now, why would any sane person want to invite every person in their contact list to look at photos they hadn't even uploaded...
...Eyeworks, which is still working out the exact details of the deal with Suleman, had its biggest reality hit to date in the U.K. with last year's Half Ton Mum, a one-hour show about Texan Renee Williams, who died at the age of 29, weighing nearly 900 lb. (400 kg). Her two adolescent daughters, Mirina and Mariah, narrated the program...
...rage over the length, severity, or causes of the financial crisis, economists have agreed on one of its effects: a renewed caution about the predictive powers of mathematics.Harvard Business School professor Robert C. Merton says that finance, unlike other subfields of economics, had never claimed to forecast the exact movements of securities prices.Merton was a co-recipient of the Nobel prize in economics in 1997 for his work on the Black-Scholes model, ubiquitously used by traders to price options and determine expected volatility.But he has also gained notoriety in financial circles for his membership on the board of directors...
...standard for guilt before the Ad Board.Right now, no formal threshold exists by which the board should decide whether or not a student should be punished. Next year, the board will have to be “sufficiently persuaded” of guilt in order to exact penalties, Sundquist said.Such a benchmark was much sought after by those unhappy with current Ad Board policy.“It was my impression,” Losick said about the current standard, “that in practice it was often ‘more likely than...
...circuit, we can conclude it was a rather serious one," he says. "But in the case of an A330, even the most serious type of short circuit - known as an emergency electrical configuration - is something absolutely manageable for a trained team. So at this time I cannot explain the exact reasons for this tragedy, if it is indeed confirmed...