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...hard-working students are rewarded, and those who are unwilling to put in the same levels of effort as their peers are duly penalized. Of course there are exceptions to the rule—but that is the underlying philosophy behind continuous assessment. Attendance and attentiveness are at a premium; idleness is the ultimate crime...
...campaign in December to push PlayStation 2 as a Christmas gift, is also planning new SMS campaigns. SMS purports to be an ethical form of advertising, since people must consciously opt in to receive the initial message. But there are already signs of abuse. Last August, Moby Monkey, a premium-rate services provider based in Leeds, England, was fined €75,800 after a U.K. regulatory body found that the company's promotional text messages were "seriously misleading." Recipients were urged to call a premium-rate number - which can cost up to €2.20 a minute - to claim a "mystery...
TIME: Are consumers willing to pay a premium for green products...
...Tasty, a 24-hour diner that occupied that same corner of Harvard Square for 81 years, closed its doors in 1997 because Cambridge Savings Bank, the owner of the building, chose to renovate. The Tasty never reopened. In the face of rising rental costs for the premium real estate, The Tasty submitted to chain stores like Pacific Sunwear, Abercrombie and Fitch and Finagle a Bagel...
...heard a lot about nostalgia this year: the vogue for vintage blue jeans (or mock-vintage blue jeans at premium prices); the continuing popularity of retro design elements (like '30s club chairs and surfaces "distressed" to look antique); punk and garage-rock revivalists like the White Stripes, the Hives, the Strokes and the Vines. The Bachelor, with its retro-style dating theme, was just one among many nostalgia-oriented television shows. There were reunions of The Cosby Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H and numerous others (for God's sake, even Alf made a comeback...