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What?s the first noticeable difference between performers of bygone days - say, up to the 1960s - and modern ones? It?s that the classic show people almost always smiled while they worked, and the newer ones almost never do. Entertainers used to sell happiness. The idea was to please the audience and to hope that, if you smiled, they?d smile back. They?d paste a big grin on their face as they spoke, sang, executed amazing tap figures. No matter how demanding or exhausting the turn, their smile would tell you: See, it?s easy. It?s not work...
Leverett Towers and Currier, two of the newer housing structures on campus, were chosen to be the first buildings with wireless because they best met the criteria for installation...
...increased power of the GMT’s mirrors will allow scientists to see further into space, gathering more information on extra-solar planet composition, the formation of galaxies, black holes and stars, as well as on newer astronomical topics like theories of dark energy...
...fair, Wirehog is not the only game in town for illegally trading music and movies. There are the old classics like KaZaA, and then there are newer entrants into the playing field, such as bittorrent—which, certain studies have suggested, may currently be responsible for something like 30 percent of all traffic on the Internet...
...fertility rates have plummeted over the past few decades. Western European women were having an average of 2.4 children each in 1970. But as women pursued higher education, increased their role in the workforce and started having babies later, that figure has fallen to 1.5 last year. In the newer member states of Central and Eastern Europe, the drop-off has been even deeper. That means that the population of the E.U. - plus candidate countries Bulgaria and Romania, expected to join by 2007 - could drop from 482 million today to 454 million by 2050. In the same period...