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...findings are presented in a chapter of a new book, Eyetracking Web Usability, by Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice of the consultancy Nielsen Norman Group. Don't let the bland title fool you: what Nielsen and Pernice have done is track the eye movements of hundreds of people as they navigate websites, looking up advice on how to deal with heartburn, shopping for baby presents, picking cell-phone features, learning about Mikhail Baryshnikov. By bouncing infrared beams off a person's retinas and recording head movements with a camera, the researchers were able to deduce what sort of ads garner...
...song is very Teletubbies," says Tony-nominated musician Kenny Mellman. "If you listen to it, there is very little music. It's all drum and Beyoncé's voice." Kara Shall, communications director of Baby Loves Disco, agrees. "Young children love songs with good rhythm and repetition, and 'Single Ladies' certainly has both," says Shall, whose company once a month in 21 cities turns bars into child-proof discos. (She also notes that her own children, ages 5 and 2, are big fans of the Beyoncé song...
Some entries explore the connections between two subjects, while others are works of art. The volume ends with a set of nine prints by artist Kara Walker, who is known for creating black cut-paper silhouettes, depicting the election of Barack Obama...
...office where Whitney Port pretends to work on MTV’s The City.Quincy House’s Cara M. Lonergan ’10 is the president of Vestis Council, has photographed for Eleganza, Freeze College Magazine, and The Harvard Voice as well as interned for designer Kara Ross.Michael R. Polino ’11 is the DJ and set designer for Project East. The Lowell resident says he groomed his style growing up in the Baltimore club scene. Fifteen Minutes (FM): Fill in the blank. White t-shirt and…Baird: Red lipstick. Dagogo-Jack: Canvas sneakers...
...tourism, whether targeting children or adults, creates huge monetary incentives for human traffickers, according to Siddharth Kara, a board member of the Washington-based NGO Free the Slaves and author of the 2008 book Sex Trafficking. Even within the exploding slavery industry, which according to Kara generated $152.3 billion in revenues in 2007, trafficked sex workers are by far the most profitable of slaves - although they constitute only 4.2% of the world's slave population, trafficked sex workers contribute 39.1% of slaveholders' profits. Destination countries often turn a blind eye to sex tourism because of these enormous revenues. The International...