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...expensive, epic, "Thriller"-type music video? I don't think the issue is one of production values so much as it is of purpose. Videos really evolved in a harsh selective environment, with MTV being the only outlet for them for 25 or 30 years. What we know as the music video is a response to what could get played on MTV. If your video wasn't played on MTV, it might as well not exist because there was no other way for it to get shared with the universe. That selective pressure is almost totally gone now. There...
Students with top scores on that exam will receive certificates - but chances for long-term benefits are slim. As it turns out, there is little evidence that traditional efforts to boost financial know-how help students make better decisions outside the classroom. Even as the financial-literacy movement has gained steam over the past decade, scores have been falling on tests that measure how savvy students are about things such as budgeting, credit cards, insurance and investments. A 2008 survey of college students conducted for the JumpStart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy found that students who'd had a personal...
That approach might have helped in the recent housing bubble. Buyers didn't just need to know how different sorts of mortgages worked; they also needed the fortitude to choose a 30-year fixed rate when everyone around them was buying a bigger house with a riskier loan. (Take a financial literacy quiz and see how you do compared to high school seniors...
...released in 2001, Penguin sold 30,000 copies. That was a good haul, but still small in comparison to the U.S., which sold 3.8 million copies, and the U.K., which sold another million. By its last two installments, 270,000 hardback copies of each flew off the shelves. "We know that more books are being published and more books are being sold - there's just no doubt about it," says Namita Gokhale a co-founder of the Jaipur Literature Festival...
...sizes up the festival crowd, looking for his big break. But figuring out how to become the next Indian literary star isn't easy. "My book is a dark coming of age story where nothing really works out for anyone," he says. "I don?t even know if there?s a market for that...