Word: expectability
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...recommend playlists of music you might like based on music you're listening to, with one click. These if-you-like-that-then-you'll-like-this music discovery services have been around since the mid-1990s. It's hardly the kind of zowee innovation we've come to expect. (And for the record, I have to say, Genius, whose super-secret algorithm makes recommendations by comparing your personal iTunes library to all the music that users have bought on iTunes, seemed a little unimaginative. During a Genius demo, Jobs played Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel"; you might be surprised...
...Spotlighting Governor Sarah Palin as the convention’s focus was a directional error. Naturally, one would expect that the convention—or much of the Republican campaign for that matter—would emphasize McCain’s comparative advantage over Obama. Indeed, this comparison has many valid discussion points; differences in tax and foreign policy, for example, continue to define the political debate. Ironically, though, Republicans used the convention mainly to introduce and display their vice presidential candidate, Governor Palin, thus comparing her against the focus of the Democratic National Convention, Senator Barack Obama...
...Recent post: Commentary suggesting the McCain campaign decided to let Charlie Gibson of ABC News interview Palin because they expect to get easy questions. (See photos of Sarah Palin here...
...Although Mugabe has reversed the ban on aid groups delivering food since the election, officials from those groups say the damage has already been done. Both the U.N. Food Agricultural Organization and the World Food Program expect that by early next year, more than 5 million Zimbabweans - about 45% of the population - will suffer food insecurity. A separate report from two human rights organizations says that nearly half the population now faces starvation, and that poor families are resorting to such desperate measures as marrying off their underage daughters to older men in exchange for food security. The International Federation...
...course, the colleges that don't offer such tuition breaks know they will likely lose students to those that do. But don't expect state schools to start rushing in. Even public universities that have large endowments have yet to embrace no-loan programs. Take the University of California system, whose $6.4 billion endowment was the 12th biggest in the nation last year. The UC schools already educate more poor kids than their Ivy League counterparts, both in terms of absolute numbers and as a proportion of their student bodies. Even at the system's flagship schools, UCLA and Berkeley...