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...them had never left Texas before. They were just so far away and everything I told them, from the random stories about the ‘Statue of Three Lies’, to Widener and how he died in the Titanic, was just marvelous to them.” Nielsen explained that about 40 percent of Roma High School graduates enter college, but far fewer graduate once there. She began organizing the trip this fall in order to encourage students to start taking the college application process seriously. A former Social Studies concentrator, Nielson teaches geography at Roma as part...
...years and has yet to come up with reliable energy savings." Daylight saving does affect people's habits: studies from the the last DST extension in 1986 show that we shop, head outside, play sports, fire up the barbecue, and drive more often once daylight saving kicks in. (Conversely, Nielsen ratings for prime-time TV traditionally fall.) But many of these activities, especially increased leisure driving, offset any environmental gains from the energy savings. "Our demand for power, whether through electric lighting, computers or TV, isn't really elastic," says Downing. "We just ask for it at different times...
...notion of NASCAR as a luxury destination seems far-fetched, you obviously haven't attended a race recently. A new Nielsen Sports survey shows wine consumption among NASCAR fans is up 22% from last year. Fans can now buy wine in the grandstands, and this year tracks are offering special wine programs - tastings at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, an exclusive lounge at Phoenix International Raceway where anywhere from $1,900 to $4,000 gets you a great view, gourmet foods, and, of course, wine. And at California Speedway in southern California, a new Wolfgang Puck restaurant with an extensive wine...
NASCAR's ratings may have fallen, but at least one Nielsen metric has gone up: wine consumption among NASCAR fans jumped 22% in 2006 compared with the previous year, according to a Nielsen Sports survey. Former racer Randy Lynch helped drive the increase as the first team owner to slap a wine logo on a stock car--in 2003--for his Bennett Lane brand,which has received 90+ scores from Wine Spectator. This year Richard Childress, owner of three Nextel Cup teams and two Busch series teams, will target first-time wine drinkers with his Childress Classic, a checkered-flag...
...garner praise from reviewers, including TIME's James Poniewozik, who cited its rich characters and excellent performances. But in that other realm, where advertising revenues dwell, the response to Friday Night Lights has been considerably less glowing. Since its debut the series has hovered between 69 and 72 in Nielsen's ratings of top 100 shows. "I'm enormously frustrated," concedes NBC Entertainment President Kevin Reilly, who's nonetheless so convinced of Lights' commercial potential that he committed to a full 22-episode season. "The passion of the people who watch the show is so disproportionate to the size...