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...shop owner can pinpoint his pitch to local diners who search for pepperoni, for instance. "Geo-targeting is huge," says Neisser. The company is also adding a mobile search tool that will eventually extend Panama's reach to cell phones. The new services should help Yahoo! close the revenue-per-search gap, although the improvement probably won't show up on its balance sheet until midway through...
...Harvard undergraduates—is poised for an increase. The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to raise the maximum Pell Grant by $260, or 6 percent. Yesterday, President Bush announced a budget calling for an increase of $550, which would boost the grant to a maximum of $4,600 per year. The director of financial aid for the College, Sally C. Donahue, welcomed the move to increase federal funding for needy students, citing a lack of action in Washington over the last four years. “It’s terrific to see at the very beginning of these...
...Previous legislation banning smoking in certain public areas had largely been flaunted; successive hikes in per-pack taxes were viewed as more efficient in getting the French to kick the habit - and are believed to have helped drive the smoking proportion of France's population down from more than one in three to 26.7%, which ranks it in the middle of Europe's averages. But with nearly half of French people aged 20-25 having developed the habit, the smokers' percentage of the population is set to rise again, and with it the number of deaths. That...
...capturing the award. “People that understand the game understand what her impact has been in the game this year and, specifically, [on] our team and how she dominates play regardless of the opponent.” Chu sits atop the D-I leaderboard in points per game, with 12 goals and 29 assists in only 18 outings. Sophomore Jenny Brine is third in the nation in goals and first in power-play strikes, and is likely to add to those figures this weekend.Game time for both contests is 7 p.m.—Staff writer Jonathan Lehman...
...hell as we were doing this work," admits Kenneth Pollack, a co-author of the report. "It was not a fun project." Nearly all past attempts by outsiders to suppress civil wars have failed. The ones that succeeded - Bosnia, for example - required a ratio of 20 armed peacekeepers per 1,000 locals. In Iraq that would mean an international security force of about 450,000 troops, and that's excluding Kurdistan, which hopefully would remain stable...