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...There's certainly a potential for one of these companies to become the most popular and dominate the field, and that's particularly true if their technology and business model envisions some kind of a multisite pass," says Rich Gordon, director of digital innovation at the Medill School of Journalism. (See the 10 biggest tech failures of the last decade...
...We’re not concerned [with] whether they force us to pass or force us to run,” junior receiver Marco Iannuzzi said. “If they force us to run, we’ve got Cheng Ho and Treavor Scales. If they force us to pass, we’ve got hands-down one of the best receiving corps in the league. So whatever they give us, we’re going to take it either...
...Brooke's agenda either. But while mother and daughters are enjoying a girls' outing to a clothing/head shop in Austin - "pretty vases!" Brooke says approvingly to a case full of bongs - a trio of tattoo-ed and pierced women roll in on skates, mugging maniacally as they pass out flyers for the next weekend's derby. Most teenage girls would have taken refuge from these R. Crumb-style creatures behind the Doc Martens display but not Bliss. She is enraptured. (See the top 10 female sports heroes...
...Boxer bill is only one of several pieces of legislation that the Senate will need to consider as it takes on cap and trade - about which the Finance Committee is only one powerful group that will have its say - and the chances that any kind of carbon cap will pass seem vanishingly small. As long as the Senate is stuck on other business, like health care, Obama and his negotiators will have their hands essentially tied at the U.N. climate-change summit in Copenhagen three months from now. They can't commit the U.S. to carbon cuts internationally...
...historic election victory, the world's collective jaw dropped when Silvio Berlusconi quipped that the next U.S. President was "young, handsome and even has a good tan." Though the Italian Prime Minister refused to apologize for the failed attempt at humor, Obama and his aides gave Berlusconi a pass. The incoming President was not going to be sidetracked by a diplomatic incident with a man already notorious as a loose cannon. Berlusconi kept his place that week on Obama's initial round of phone calls to world leaders, with the "tan" remark firmly off the agenda and both sides hailing...