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...years, anyone wishing to develop Kodachrome film had to send it to a Kodak laboratory, which controlled all processing. In 1954, the Department of Justice declared Kodachrome-processing a monopoly, and the company agreed to allow other finishing plants to develop the film; the price of a roll of film - which previously had the processing cost added into it - fell roughly 43%. (Read about Kodak's antitrust case...
Horror on the Doorstep In another country, reports of elected representatives milking their expenses might send folk on to the streets to burn a few cars. Britons are angry - you only need to drop the word politician into a conversation to discover just how furious they are - but their anger is of the slow-burning, passive-aggressive variety of a people who wear socks with sandals. All the mainstream parties encountered hostility on the doorstep as they campaigned for last week's elections, but Labour, as the party of government, was perceived to carry the heaviest responsibility. "When we talk...
...while FlyBy supports every Harvard student's Constitutionally-guaranteed right to complain--which we gleefully exercise when lowly Cabinet members and famous TV personalities send us off to the real world, or when the College Events Board decimates our quality of life by failing to magically turn its paltry funds into Lil' Wayne--we're also willing to give credit where credit is due. So far, the Athletic Department has resisted the urge to get rid of varsity programs like its counterpart over...
...fact, while there have been real splits between the U.S. and Europe in other international crises - most divisive, Europe's reluctance to send combat troops to Afghanistan - the allies are hardly at odds in their basic response to the Iranian election. "There isn't a deep underlying difference - both sides would like to see free and fair elections in Iran," says Niblett. "But there are various factors that have prevented a unified response. And that's O.K. In this regard, Obama should play it differently...
...Presto and Celery, which both launched in 2006, deliver e-mail printouts almost in real time because they require subscribers to purchase hardware to handle incoming messages. (In addition to personal updates and interesting articles, caregivers can send reminders about doctors' appointments and family functions.) Celery charges $13.98 a month to send and receive (color printouts of) e-mails - as well as Facebook and Twitter updates - via a fax machine, which costs $119 if you don't already own one. Presto - to which, full disclosure, my husband and I were early adopters, each of us having bought a machine...