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...show was instant hit when it premiered last fall. It is credited with rejuvenating the profit margins of the entire network, and undoubtedly helped its primetime line-up snag a Neilsen victory for the television season...
Both Gates and Appiah praised Time Warner for acquiring a company that will not bring them a quick and easy profit...
...With a monolithic organization like Time Warner, it's not going to give them any significant incremental profit, but it will certainly complete a product," said Cooma Chelliah, Senior Vice President of britannica.com, the online site of Encyclopedia Britannica...
...there are substantive questions too about whether market forces will work as Bush and others promise when profit-driven corporations are called upon to provide care for what Diane Rowland, a health expert for the Kaiser Commission on Medicare and the Uninsured, calls "some of our most vulnerable, frail and lowest-income people." Simply put, would the elderly be able to buy an adequate plan with the sort of subsidy Bush wants to give them? As people near the end of their lives, growing steadily sicker, is it choice they need--or reliable support...
...Fathom is a for-profit online partnership of Columbia University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History and other institutions, and will offer online classes taught by prominent academics. The site launches this fall. CEO Kirschner envisions a scenario in which older adults will use Fathom courses to indulge lifelong passions and reinvent themselves for new careers. "It's as if, all of a sudden, everybody lives on a college campus," she says. "So many retirement communities are built near college campuses for just this reason. Now anyone, anywhere will...