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...rapidly growing demographic of constantly connected individuals with scant patience for traditional media is emerging in society. According to the Radicanti Group, a Palo Alto-based market research firm, there will be roughly 139 million wireless e-mail users by the end of 2009, a figure that will rise by an average annual rate of 68 percent until there are one billion users by 2013. True, these data have nothing to say about the number of books these users read in a year or about the way in which they read. Yet they nevertheless sketch an outline of a burgeoning...
Julie E. Goodman, an adjunct lecturer in epidemiology at the School of Public Health and a toxicologist at Gradient, an environmental consulting firm, said that the victims were lucky given the deadliness of the chemical...
...bullish about the discounts, it's the book business that's throwing a fit. "The fear is that people get used to paying less for books than it costs to make them, which puts downward price pressure on everything," says Michael Norris, a publishing-industry analyst for research firm Simba Information. Wholesale prices for publishers and advances for authors could...
...began as a project between Harvard Medical School and Architectural Resources Cambridge (ARC), a national architectural design firm that specializes in institutional facilities...
...throwback to old-fashioned indemnity plans in which patients pay 10%-20% of the actual cost of each doctor's visit, lab test, procedure or prescription. When it comes to employee health, companies are going to stress "personal responsibility," says Kent Lonsdale, an executive vice president with the consulting firm Gallagher Benefit Services...