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...sweeps week - that time of year where plot lines get thrown out the window as network executives feverishly pray that ratings will follow them through the roof. Four weeks a year, networks inundate the TV-viewing public with a veritable flood of plot-twisting, cringe-inducing, shark-jumping moments in the hopes they'll tune in - please, just tune in - in order to give the networks a vital boost during the critical periods when Nielsen Media Research takes its regular survey of TV viewing habits. (See the top 10 disastrous Letterman interviews...
...Wall Street, what's called a bonus is generally part of base pay. That's especially true for worker bees, who far outnumber CEOs. (The word bonus is a remnant from the days when Wall Street was made up of partnerships. Now that Wall Street's largely owned by public shareholders, it should have long since dropped bonus for contingent compensation or something similar. But hey, the Street, as I said, is tone-deaf.)(See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
Overall, the application does what it sets out to do, which is to provide the public with timely information on prevention and outbreaks of the H1N1 virus. The features are easy to use and the graphics are well designed. The fact that people have instant access to the most updated information – where there is an outbreak, when the first symptoms are spotted, how to prevent infection – relieves some of the anxiety about the global pandemic. Still. This can't be good for all those hypochondriacs out there...
...what effects will our reading innovations—the vook included—have on today’s reading public...
Julie E. Goodman, an adjunct lecturer in epidemiology at the School of Public Health and a toxicologist at Gradient, an environmental consulting firm, said that the victims were lucky given the deadliness of the chemical...