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...window as network executives feverishly pray that ratings will follow them through the roof. Four weeks a year, networks inundate the TV-viewing public with a veritable flood of plot-twisting, cringe-inducing, shark-jumping moments in the hopes they'll tune in - please, just tune in - in order to give the networks a vital boost during the critical periods when Nielsen Media Research takes its regular survey of TV viewing habits. (See the top 10 disastrous Letterman interviews...
...broader point is that how a society decides to order itself matters too. Advanced capitalist countries like Denmark and Norway have vastly smaller differences between their rich and poor citizens compared with the U.S. That arises not from a different sort of economy but from a different attitude toward taxation and how much wealth should be redistributed...
...economy help narrow the gap between the rich and the poor? That's the implication of a sweeping new study appearing in the journal Science. The research corrals data from 21 populations - from the pre-Industrial merchants of East Anglia to the Ache foragers of present-day Paraguay - in order to look at how wealth gets trapped within certain families...
...goal? To utilize Harvard’s extensive knowledge in order to “tell you how you can reduce your risk of contracting H1N1 anytime, anywhere through your iPhone," according to the trippy promotional trailer below...
...just $5. Monday night from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. is $5 pizza pie night at Oggi’s Pizza in the Holyoke Center. You can score a 16” pizza for just five bucks (as long as you eat at the restaurant or pick up your order). Delicious and wallet-friendly? FM’s there...