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...FRANCISCO Philippe Starck's clocks for Oregon Scientific are a big hit at Saks Fifth Avenue. They come in three colors, display the local weather and project the time onto the ceiling...
...Student Public Interest Research Group in Oregon and California spearheaded the study, which examined the most widely assigned books in the fall of 2003 at 10 public colleges in Oregon and California. This heroic work has since drawn the attention of 15 members of congress, who in turn recently asked the General Accounting Office to investigate U.S. publishing practices...
...Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, has emerged this year in its third edition since it was first published six years ago, at a list price of $121. While some fields certainly evolve rapidly enough to justify frequent revisions, more than half of the professors in the California and Oregon study believed new editions were “rarely” or “never” justified. Unless publishing companies provide appropriate explanations, students will continue to suspect they are being swindled...
...students who instigated the study in California and Oregon have begun a fine mission which Congress should now lead to a happy conclusion for students everywhere. Legislators should seize the opportunity to eliminate any undue financial drains associated with the desire to learn. Textbook sales should be governed by student needs first—and profits second...
...There's comfort here for some people that their overeating is not a lack of willpower." RICHARD SIMERLY, researcher at Oregon Health and Science University in the U.S., on findings that obese people's brains might be "hardwired" at birth to tell the body to eat too much