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...lose more than just the game. Your private information is also at stake. Facebook application developers—who can be anybody—are unnecessarily given full access to both users’ and their friends’ private information, according to a University of Virginia study. Adrienne Felt, a senior at the University of Virginia who conducted the study, looked at the top 150 Facebook applications and what information they require in order to run. She concluded that only 9.3 percent of these applications required private information—yet Facebook currently gives all applications access...
There's no event so passionate in English soccer as a derby fixture - Liverpool vs. Everton, say, or Arsenal vs. Tottenham - where the intense local rivalry is felt for miles around the ground, and the pride on the pitch makes for snappier tackles and that extra ounce of effort as fans steeped in decades of local rivalry spur their team forward. But would those games offer quite the same spectacle if they were played in Beijing or New York? The hundreds of millions of fans who tune in to TV broadcasts of the English Premier League each week may soon...
...bridge the gap between bestseller lists, which show what a lot of people are reading, and book reviews, which show what a few people think is good. According to their blog, “Critical Mass,” “it felt like a moment had yet to be seized about finding out what a lot of people said was good.” Nearly 500 of the NBCC’s member critics voted on the first “Best Recommended” list, plus additional finalists and winners of its yearly book awards. Writers like...
...felt like no one really cared about actually learning—they were just focused on beating everyone else and were worried about what the curve was going to be,” Younger says of her experience in Life Sciences 1b last spring. “I was really turned off by the whole environment...
...Bantams were the first top-5 team that the Crimson had faced after a relatively soft early season schedule. With the loss, Harvard fell from the ranks of the unbeaten with the toughest stretch of the season still ahead. “With exams and shopping period, I felt we were a little slow out of blocks,” head coach Satinder Bajwa said. “But I am proud of the team and how they played. I felt it was a match we could have won.” A few key games here and there...