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...meeting about the program’s environmental impact and whether students even prefer reading a physical newspaper to the internet. Maghran said at the meeting that USA Today would recycle extra newspapers and adjust the number of copies provided to meet student demand. She said that paper newspapers remain important in encouraging reading. “People who physically read newspapers read a lot more than online,” she said. “The internet complements the physical newspaper.” Maghran said that USA Today would also handle delivery, signs, and ID card-readers that...
There is no question that racial bias is a powerful force to overcome and a slippery one to quantify. But with Obama propelled by panic over shrinking nest eggs and the wilting Dow, the Bradley effect may be this fall's paper tiger: an old theory re-heated by the media because there's not much left to talk about...
...According to a paper published in this month's Journal of Sports Economics, entitled "Pigskins and Politics: Linking Expressive Behavior and Voting," residents that show overt support for their favorite college football team, in the form of displays like flags on the front yard, are nearly twice as likely as non-fanatics to hit the polls on Election Day. To reach this conclusion, a group of economists at Auburn University used that football-fueled college town as a laboratory. The researchers trolled a county database to find the addresses for nearly 4,000 residences in Auburn, and then last September...
...Some 7% of the houses scouted by the researchers had at least one visible display of affection, which the authors cataloged in the paper's most entertaining paragraph. There were six different ways fans expressed their feelings for Auburn football, they noted. They were: "1) flying an AU flag, 2) affixing an AU pom-pom on one's mailbox, 3) affixing an AU sticker on one's mailbox, 4) placing an AU sign in one's yard, 5) placing an AU windmill in one's yard" and, in words that, sadly, will likely never appear in an economics research paper...
...everyone supports the decision - including the court's lead prosecutor, who is appealing the ruling. Senator Agustín Conde, spokesperson on judicial affairs for the opposition Popular Party, lamented that Garzón was "reopening wounds that were happily healed," and an editorial in the center-right paper El Mundo warned that "the politics of memory are nasty" and constitute a "bloodless form of vengeance...