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...engine that Internet content will run on. This is a victory party for online advertising's long boom. According to a Yankee Group report, online advertising rang up $16.9 billion in revenue in 2006 and could grow 24% a year or more. It's still a pretty meager slice of total ad spending--only 7.5% last year, according to the report. But expect that to change. "An industry that was pretty much left for dead five years ago is right back beyond where it was in the peak of what we now call the bubble days," says Andrew Frank, media...
...Tancredo was always a self-professed one-issue candidate. And far from being disappointed at his meager poll showings, Tancredo says he achieved more in this election cycle than he dreamt possible. In part due to his cage-rattling, immigration is one of the biggest issues in the race, on both sides of the aisle...
...clandestine field clinic for communist soldiers in the jungles of Quang Ngai, in what was then South Vietnam, and began keeping a diary shortly after arrival. "Operated on one case of appendicitis with inadequate anesthesia," reads her first entry, dated April 8, 1968. "I had only a few meager vials of Novocain to give the soldier, but he never groaned once ... He even smiled to encourage...
...determining company, passes out between one and four thousand paper surveys in a given market. People then judge the stations they’ve listened to recently, send their surveys back to Arbitron, and let them compile the data to send to radio stations. Stations then shell out a meager $40,000 for the complete results and use the statistical proof of their superiority as leverage with advertisers.But all this is about to change. Arbitron is officially entering the 21st century and revolutionizing the ratings game with the introduction of a pager-like device called the Portable People Meter...
...which produced successful alumni novelists from both schools. In the Yale corner is Natalie Krinsky, author of “Chloe Does Yale,” which chronicles the exploits of an insecure, surprisingly unintelligent sex columnist at Yale. Reviewers lauded the book as “too meager, too infernally moronic, for a grand denunciation” (Yale Herald) and “surprisingly dull” (NY Sun). (I’ve read it; it really is quite bad.) Harvard’s class of 2004 featured Uzodinma Iweala, whose first novel “Beasts...