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...next day my publisher called me to say, "Have you taken a look at the Amazon rankings?" You know something has happened when your publisher calls. Usually it's the author who calls and says, "Did you see? My book went from 643 to 627, think we should order more copies?" I looked, and the book was at Number 14. Later it went up to 7. And then came the Mac-PC ads, and I was torn immediately from a very happy, satisfied, mature career as a freelance magazine writer and author of books of fake trivia. The Daily Show...
...Sarkozy won't have to wait long. Just hours after their closed-door meeting had finished, Bush and Sarkozy, along with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, issued a joint statement announcing that a summit would be held next month to devise what Barroso calls a "new global financial order...
...company’s Web site. King said that the technology, referred to as “readme” by its developers, arose from a previous project that the team had worked on for the World Health Organization that analyzed causes of death around the world in order to better allocate health resources. In the process, they developed what they call a “fully automated procedure” that required no personal judgment from physicians and factored in statistical uncertainties. This objective technique, King said, proved useful for another project—interpreting opinions expressed about...
...Thankfully, Harvard has stuck with its core business as a place of education and decided to make cutting GHG emissions a campus-wide social effort to some extent, not just one for engineers and construction workers. However, in order to make environmentalism a unifying social cause on campus, and ingrain behavior that reduces GHG emissions, Harvard will have to take steps to strengthen and expand its current environmental outreach efforts...
...site will be frequently updated through the election. The latest amendment? A leak in the ceiling creates a puddle on Palin's desk. Click on that puddle in order to prompt a visit from the nation's new favorite plumber...