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...their content, but director P.J. Hogan probably didn't want to trouble the American moviegoing public with such details. That Becky and Luke (who happens to be rich - he's basically a walking lottery ticket) will fall in love is also a given, but that's a touch harder to swallow. It's not that Dancy isn't cute - he is, like a smaller, more delicately featured Hugh Grant - but simply because Becky seems more interested in mannequins than in men. There's nothing womanly about any of her getups; they're more like costumes put on by a little...
...future. So you risk alienating those fans when you try to boost the bottom line down the road. "It's a slippery slope," says David Carter, executive director of the Sports Business Institute at the University of Southern California. "If the consumer lowers the threshold, it's harder to get back to the true market price. It's a decent short-term strategy that can wreak havoc in the long term." International Speedway, for one, insists the deals will stick around for some time. "We're doing a price-resetting," says chief marketing officer Daryl Wolfe. "We're not talking...
...brain is nothing if not a biological machine - one that works like any other machine, at least when it comes to temperature. Parts that are working harder than others become hotter than others, thanks to the additional flow of blood shunted their way. Engineer Tom Chau of the University of Toronto suspected he could take advantage of that fact...
...that cannot be implemented at the state level,” she said. Jonathan E. Palumbo, education press secretary of the Massachusetts Governor’s office, said that the administration is aware that the educational system has problems. “We recognize that we need to work harder, work stronger, and do a lot more to making the teaching profession more attractive in Massachusetts,” he said. —Staff writer Sofia E. Groopman can be reached at segroopm@fas.harvard.edu...
...think that every kid on our team is very determined right now,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “They know what the stakes are, they’re all playing harder and smarter, and they’re sharing the puck. That gives [Vaillancourt] the opportunity to do the things she does well. So many of the goals that have been scored in the past week have been because of our speed, everybody working together—not just one individual effort. Sometimes it appears that way, but it’s [about] people being...