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...According to Klinefelter's research, teens are making fewer trips to the store; teen spending on fashion products fell 13% this spring. Only 35% of the teens Piper Jaffray surveyed had part-time work this spring, compared with 50% four years ago. "Teens definitely have much greater awareness of what's going on around them now than they did eight years ago," says Klinefelter. "They're seeing the news on their computers and cell phones, and are very aware that we're in a recession." (See the top 10 business deals...
...heard some in the media compare the events in Iran with the "Tehran spring" of 1999, when hundreds of thousands of young Iranians, buoyed by the reformist policies of then President Khatami, poured onto the streets to demand greater freedoms, only to be brutally beaten back by the country's security forces. Others point to 1989 and the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing for a suitable historical analogy for the antigovernment demonstrations that have rocked Iran. Yet for me and millions of my fellow compatriots - both inside and outside Iran - it is the memory of 1979 that most keenly informs...
...course, some of the new operating system's power will be realized only on the 3GS, which promises to be faster and have a greater variety of bells and whistles (a compass, so that you can see what direction you're facing; a video camera and a 3-megapixel camera) that are missing on the current version. For Apple fans, the only thing that would make this week more exciting would be if Steve Jobs, who's been out on sick leave and is due back by the end of June, finally returned...
...with a bang. Later today - if weather conditions and hardware permit - NASA will launch its much anticipated and deeply imaginative Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the first American spacecraft of any kind to make a lunar trip since 1999. Not only will the LRO help us study the moon in greater detail than ever before, it should also give us our first look at the six Apollo landing sites since we abandoned the historic campgrounds two generations...
...packages turn out."Susan Gilbert, director of MBA financial aid at HBS, said her school was happy to support such an important initiative and that $5,000 represented an "appropriate amount for the first year of our program."Day said the University's decentralized approach has actually allowed for greater participation in the program among Harvard's various schools, which have different admissions timelines, tuition expenses, and institutional aid budgets."From the beginning we were concerned that if the VA required a one-size fits all approach across the whole campus...you could end up with a more modest level...