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...guard named Kirk (Jay Baruchel) who meets and ends up dating a drop-dead gorgeous party-planner (Eve) who comes through his airport. Everyone around them tells them that it can’t work, because while Kirk is a “5” on the hotness-scale, Molly is a “10,” and two people of such diverging attractiveness could never make it work. Ritter plays Eve’s straight-talking, hostile best friend who is opposed to the relationship from the beginning...
...keeping with the theme of the movie, Eve and Ritter have had to assign numerical values on the attraction-scale to fans left and right for the majority of the tour. “We’ve been doing it all day, every day, for our tour,” said Ritter. “People will be like, ‘Rate this...
...already threatening new tariffs against Chinese imports, will be furious. One hopeful sign: a U.S. Treasury team was recently in Beijing, no doubt talking about exactly this subject. Politics is rearing its head on both sides of the Pacific these days. And it may take an optimist on the scale of a Sergey Brin to think that anything good will come...
...result is a company that's able to produce profitable content on a scale that traditional news organizations can only envy. Demand estimates that it took in $200 million in revenue in 2009, enough to turn a profit. It helps that none but the company's most prolific content creators get health insurance or, for that matter, a minimum hourly wage. Critics have dubbed the company a digital sweatshop. Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York University, has called Demand "demonic," and many writers prickle at the thought of being paid a few cents - rather than a few dollars...
...from an assignment's parameters, I was asked for a rewrite. All told, 40% of the 20 or so articles I submitted required some additional work before they got posted. My deliberate haste and sloppiness with Demand stories have led copy editors to give me, on a five-point scale, a pretty crummy 3.5 for grammar and 3.7 for research. If my scores dip too low, Demand will banish me from the system. (See 25 websites you can't live without...