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...Already, startup Frontline Wireless, a venture supported by a group of Silicon Valley investors, has gone belly up, unable to secure funding for its intended bid on the discounted public-private D block of the 700 MHz spectrum that will share airwaves with public-safety responders. "I don't expect that the auction will result in a major new market entrant," says Michael Calabrese, director of the wireless future program at the New America Foundation, a Washington, D.C. think tank. "I think Verizon will end up bidding more because it is worth more to them to keep...
...things get in China, it'll be worse in the U.S. By mid-morning Tuesday, the Dow was already trading down 2.6%. Expect 2008 "to be a very bad year for the U.S.," says Stein...
...expect bipartisanship to become the new Washington ethos: the love-fest is isolated to stemming fears of recession. By the time Bush gets up to deliver his seventh State of the Union address on Jan. 28, things will be sounding a bit more normal. Congress will soon take up the far more contentious question of domestic eavesdropping. Last summer, it passed the Protect America Act (PAA), which was designed to modernize the 1978 law controlling electronic surveillance of Americans. After initially trying to block the bill, which expanded the government's ability to track suspect individuals, Democrats caved...
Another surprise lies in the demographics of visitors to antidepressant websites - they're not who you would expect. If visitors to Lexapro.com, for example, are at all representative of the typical depressed individual, depression during November is an affliction primarily of the young and the old, but not of the middle-aged. The two age groups that account for the largest portion of site visitors are 18 to 24 (26.2%) and over 55 (27.6%). Visitors to Lexapro's site also tend to have average to above-average incomes: 51% of visitors come from households earning between...
...wannabes that have already gotten through are hard-pressed to tie their own shoelaces, let alone grade exams, without professional help. The kids are back in school—thank God—but the damned hybrid doesn’t handle well in the snow.And you expect us to go to a Faculty meeting? I think I’ll catch up on my journals, thank you very much, or maybe write an essay for The New Yorker. From Nassau.The actual business of running Harvard is frustratingly tedious. The Faculty figured out as much last spring, when several hours?...