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...Verizon all raised their pay-per-use costs of sending a text message from 10 cents to 20 cents over the past three years. That prompted Senator Herbert Kohl, the Wisconsin Democrat who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, to hold hearings on the matter in June...
...Clark and other football fans shouldn't hold their breath. "No consideration is being given to changing the blackout policy," says NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy. "It has served us well for decades, and we think it would be a mistake to alter it." And as much as some local officials may be griping about it, teams aren't necessarily helping. Some teams that are facing the prospect of blackouts haven't even lowered their ticket prices to entice fans. In Jacksonville, for example, the average general-admission ticket costs $57.34, a 3.7% increase from 2008, according to Team Marketing Report...
...There was always a hold-your-nose-and-do-it aspect to the TARP because the bankers who caused the crisis were going to benefit," says John Irons, the research and policy director at the Economic Policy Institute. "I think that's where all the criticism comes from. But it seems to be the case that the program, while not a raging success, worked well enough to stop the worst from happening...
...September - but the first batch of the vaccine isn't due until October. "Clearly the best strategy is to vaccinate schoolchildren first," said Longini. "The problem is the supply of the vaccine." That means the disease could begin to spread, and quickly, before protection from vaccinations could take hold...
...Molecular biology had a ‘bacterial’ explosion...and it produced a bunch of methods and ideas that [ecologists] started grabbing hold of,” Wilson said. “Meanwhile, MCB is starting to go evolutionary...