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...sports history climaxed a week ago today with the Red Sox defeating the Yankees 4-3 in the American League Championship Series, Boston erupted in celebration. Jubilation quickly turned to tragedy, however, as 21-year-old Emerson College junior Victoria Snelgrove was killed after Boston police fired a plastic projectile of pepper spray into the crowd, striking her in the eye. By all accounts, Snelgrove was an innocent bystander who was simply rejoicing over the victory of her beloved...
...Your Internet bandwidth charges wind up wrapped up inside your comparatively enormous college housing bill, now that the University policy has changed you probably don’t have outgoing phone service on that presidential-looking red phone in your common room, and your monthly statement for the annoying plastic box you carry around in your pocket that plays Beethoven’s Ninth at inopportune moments in class likely goes to your parents and rarely tops 40 or 50 dollars. The upshot of all this is that you can IM your blockmate in the next room...
...stress of a prolonged contract lawsuit, but Wilson’s behavior became stranger. Fearing his house was bugged, he held business meetings in his swimming pool. He suspected that he was being frightened by Phil Spector-hired “mind gangsters.” Studio musicians donned plastic fire hats while recording a section predictably called “Fire”—and he set a small blaze in the studio to create the smell of smoke. When he learned later that there had been a fire near the studio and a small outbreak...
...battle over how the two market leaders blocked rivals from partnering with card-issuing banks. American Express announced that it would roll out credit cards with MBNA, and Discover is pursuing new partners too. The change comes at a time when consumers are already overwhelmed with pitches for new plastic--in the second quarter, a record 1.4 billion mailings went out, according to direct-mail tracker Synovate. That means the average household received 6 offers a month, up from 4.6 a year ago. New competition may mean more choice when it comes to rewards programs, says David Robertson, publisher...
...Procera System, developed by Nobel Biocare, a leader in dental prosthetics, changes all that. The keys are software that makes it possible to design a patient's prosthesis in advance and a plastic surgical guide that fits over the gums and enables the surgeon to place the implants precisely without splaying open the gums, thus reducing healing time and the risk of infection. The surgery takes only an hour under local anesthesia. "This is revolutionary," says Abraham Ingber of Bethesda, Md., one of 20 U.S. prosthedontists working with the system. The company plans to launch Procera nationwide in the first...