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...When the lion is chasing the antelope, he doesn't look back. He has to eat.' ROBERT CHERUIYOT, Kenyan marathoner, on what kept him moving as he won his second consecutive and third overall Boston Marathon on April 16, running it in 2 hr. 14 min. 13 sec...
...commissioner for the New York City fire department, Arnell is well aware that often homeowners can't find their extinguishers when faced with a fire. But the sleek, unobtrusive Home Hero can be stored visibly in the kitchen, which translates to a find-and-deploy time of just 8 sec. "This is the first time design is being used as a strategic weapon to bring true differentiation to the consumer," Arnell says. "Our game is about rethinking the whole...
...KING AND THAI Thailand recently cut off access to the site after someone posted a 44-sec. video depicting King Bhumibol Adulyadej with clown features and feet pasted over his head...
...brave new world for people whose job it is to sell you things, what with consumers' TiVo-enabled ability to skip over ads they don't want to see, and their Internet-empowered freedom to find out all the stuff left out of a cheery 30-sec. TV spot. That's driving marketers to all sorts of new places, including your circle of friends--a trend that has produced some surprising intelligence on how word-of-mouth communication really works...
...seen any officiating bias in the Ivy League, his experiences as a coach elsewhere supported Boyko’s findings. “When I was at Cincinnati, I did notice a big difference,” Murphy said. “Whenever we’d play an SEC [Southeastern Conference] team, we had Southeastern Conference officials and not Conference-USA officials. If you went to Kentucky or Tennessee, I think the bias of the officials was palpable.” Boyko’s team also found that the partiality was more prevalent among less experienced referees...