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This year Harvard had a 6.9 percent acceptance rate. Book of Odds, a Web site which describes itself as “a reference on the odds of everyday life,” has converted that number into betting style odds...
...will be hiked an average 8%, IMAX prices will balloon 10% for adults and 12% for children, and 2-D tickets will cost 4% more for adults and 3% more for kids. A 3-D IMAX movie night for a family of four, with tickets ordered over an Internet site like Fandango that charges a booking fee, can run from $60 to $75 before the family even gets to the concession stand. For all of this, you can thank Cameron - and Tim Burton, who directed Alice in Wonderland, not to mention the mass audience's compulsion...
That's where the Facebook effect comes in. When you see a friend doing something online, you're more likely to follow - whether the activity is telling the world what color bra you're wearing or doing something more goal-oriented. Jennifer Weber says the site helped her catch the marathon bug. "When all these people around you are doing it, you look at them and think, 'Well, if they can run a marathon ...,' " she says. "It spreads like wildfire." The 23-year-old ran her first marathon not long after moving across the country to New York City...
...already been strained by China's reluctance to seek a deal on climate change during the Copenhagen conference in December. Then came last month's decision by U.S. Internet giant Google to shutter the censored search engine it ran in China and instead funnel mainland searches to an unfiltered site in Hong Kong. And all of this was underscored by growing tension over currency issues between the two key players in the world economy...
When a student requests a book from the Depository on the Hollis Web site, the text’s barcode is placed on a list that is passed on to one of the 23 Depository staffers...