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...search for. During the first weeks of the year, diet searches outnumber their closest self-improvement counterpart, "exercise," by 250%. And the list of most popular dieting queries are riddled with quick fixes such as "diet pills" and "the sacred heart diet," an urban-legend diet promising a 10-pound weight loss in seven days. This year even saw the shortest diet query in search engine history, the "three-hour diet." A look at the top ten searches containing the term "diet" for the first week of 2007 proves long-term solutions aren't a major pre-occupation...
...temperature is below freezing, but inside the air is thick and pungent with the heavy scent of perspiration. A small microphone is turned on, and a middle-aged man with a face creased with grief began chanting a mournful dirge. The penitents, sitting in rough circles, begin to pound their chests in a powerful rhythm amplified by a hundred chest cavities. Deep and as resonant as a heartbeat, the sound gradually changes tenor as thin cotton shirts split with the force of repeated blows and palms slap bare skin. Men wail...
...EUROPE'S OVERDUE REVIVAL Thailand's latest crisis was partly the result of a 16% increase in the value of the baht against the dollar during the first 11 months of 2006. But the euro and the pound sterling have also strengthened, with the E.U. currency rising by about 10% in the past year alone. A stronger currency makes European exports more expensive for foreign buyers. But that didn't prevent Germany from notching up a $200 billion trade surplus in the first 11 months of last year, the largest since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The good news...
...This $1,000 widget takes the Roomba one step further. The 18-pound UBot behemoth not only vacuums and sweeps, but it wet mops your floors as well. If you're a diehard robo-fan, you can set up special flooring with invisible barcodes that the UBot reads to determine how best to mop. Future models will clean carpets as well, and might even clean out your wallet...
...Cambridge’s chief academic and administrative officer, Richard has introduced a one-billion pound ($1.9 billion) capital campaign in anticipation of the university’s 800th anniversary in 2009. The sum is a vast one for a university in England, where leading institutions are far poorer than their American peers. While Harvard has $29.2 billion in its coffers, Cambridge has just $8 billion, two-thirds of which are controlled by the university’s 31 individual colleges...