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...even higher and sometimes to bring in extra revenue, they have begun to license their name for use on all sorts of other items. Some $5 billion worth of such merchandise will be sold this year, up 20% from 1984. Says Thomas Murn, editor of Licensing Today, a trade journal: "It has enormous consumer appeal. Between now and the 1990s we will see an explosion of corporate licensing products...
...around A.D. 577, Gregory's tome was designed to provide monasteries with clear instructions for setting their predawn prayer schedules; thus it listed for each month the time that certain constellations would rise above the horizon. From the rise times and periods of visibility, the researchers report in the journal Nature, they were able to identify Sirius, which Gregory called Rubeola or Robeola, meaning "red" or "rusty." They point out that because Gregory did not use the classical names of the stars, he was probably unaware of Roman and Greek astronomy. Therefore, the Ruhr team concluded, Sirius looked...
...foam that the tides of history carry on their strong backs"; in Saint-Gervais, France. Through two masterworks, his classic The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949) and the three-volume Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century (1979), and his editorship of the journal Annales from 1956 to 1968, Braudel and his eclectic methods came to dominate French historiography, and substantially influenced scholars in Britain and the U.S. as well...
...Embarrassing Things That Might Happen to You While Using a Lightsaber) and Reviews of New Food (on blowing bubbles with Skittles gum: "You would have far better luck coaxing a sphere out of chewed-up crayon and oatmeal"). Affiliated with, but separate and distinct from, the quarterly print literary journal McSweeney...
...also plays on the world stage. Awarded the contract to test athletes for banned substances at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, CapitalBio has designed a new chip that can screen as many as 10,000 samples a day (compared with just a few hundred under current methods). The scientific journal Nature Methods has hailed that as "a first step [toward] the advent of systematic, reliable screening for every athlete...