Word: information
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...Deitch said the company learned its lesson from the News Feed uprising. “Last week, we learned we need to do a better job communicating on launches,” Deitch told Forbes.com on Monday. “We are going to think through how to better inform users, and we don’t want to risk expanded registration being a big issue on the heels of last week’s changes.” —Staff writer Sam Teller can be reached at steller@fas.harvard.edu...
...proud tradition of being an innovative forerunner in higher education. It added a significant mark on that timeline yesterday when it announced that it will abandon early admissions to the College.Like many other schools, Harvard has long had an early admissions system whereby students who applied by November were informed of a decision by mid-December. Harvard’s system is non-binding, meaning early admits are free to apply to other schools and inform Harvard of their decision in May. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions says that students who apply early have no special advantage in the admissions...
Ports 1961 is the brainchild of Tia Cibani, 33, a designer of Italian-Libyan parentage and Canadian citizenship whose international background and itinerant lifestyle inform the look of her eclectic and coolly modern clothes...
Computers aren't the only office snitches. Slightly more than half of employers surveyed monitor how much time their employees spend on the phone, and even track calls--up from 9% in 2001. Companies are required to inform every nonemployee that they're listening in, which is why you hear, "This call is being monitored for quality assurance." But there's no such protection for staff members. Bosses monitor calls with programs like Nice Systems', which sends an alert if your voice reaches a certain decibel level or you blurt out profane language or a competitor's name...
...books, working every morning, never deviating from a disciplined routine. "A writer must sit down to write every day, pick up his pen and try to write something - anything - on a piece of paper," he once said. (According to legend, when the Swedish ambassador paid him a call to inform him that he'd been awarded the Nobel, Mahfouz's wife refused to disturb him: he was taking his regular...