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Building a user base and ad revenues from calendars may prove difficult, since Microsoft, Yahoo!, Apple and various other start-ups have free calendar offerings that are improving. But 30 Boxes' founders know a lot about working from scratch. They created and sold photo destination Webshots twice--first to Excite@home (another dotcom casualty) for $82.5 million in stock in 1999 and then, after buying it back in 2002 for $2.4 million, they retooled it and resold it to CNET for $70 million in 2004. Will they try for the hat trick? "We could go into a larger organization...
...Darius Miles would be an All-Star. Or an Oscar winner. In college especially, where the team’s composition by nature changes dramatically every year, these first forecasts are silly.It wouldn’t be so problematic if voters had the ingenuity or inclination to start from scratch in composing their rankings each week. Instead, they employ the previous week’s poll as their foundation and build from there—a loss slides a team down, a quality win bumps a team up. Therefore, a stinky squad that had the good fortune to be ranked...
...that night, Baird has taken apart the bikini top and pinned it to her dressmaker’s mannequin. A summer of intensive fashion classes at The Art Institute of Chicago taught her some basic design skills, but starting a dress from scratch is a far cry from the altering and designing that she’s used...
...Well, scratch the above qualms. Now that I've seen the new Broadway revival of A Chorus Line - directed by Bob Avian, who co-choreographed the original with creator Michael Bennett - my memories can rest easy. It's a great show, and this revival proves...
Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) has been very active in its efforts to eliminate trans fats from dining hall food. All products made from scratch by HUDS no longer have trans fats after the company switched from partially hydrogenated oil in 2003. Dining hall margarine, peanut butter, muffins, cookies, and even chicken fingers and french fries all no longer contain trans fats. Of the desserts, only German chocolate brownies, Oreo cake, congo bars, and chocolate truffle do not qualify...