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...mere 2% said "portal or Internet mall." The majority, 62%, went to the site directly. So if portal shoppers aren't buying, what are they doing? They're absorbing marketing messages that will influence future purchases, both online and at traditional bricks-and-mortar stores, says Lisa Strand, e-commerce director at Nielsen/NetRatings. That's why eyeballs still count...
...many opportunities, so many cliffs to jump off--a new frontier of ethics, politics, religion and commerce. Centuries of philosophical arguments about free will are now twisted like that DNA strand. Are you truly free to be a size 6 if gluttony is in your genes? The nature-vs.-nurture debate changes when scientists find a gene that makes you shy, makes you reckless, makes you sad. For families haunted by generations of loss to cystic fibrosis and Tay-Sachs disease and sickle-cell anemia, prenatal testing may spare them a future as painful as the past...
...working to sabotage them. Fox has degraded such thought-to-be-not-further-degradable entities as Vanilla Ice and Barry Williams (The Brady Bunch) on Celebrity Boxing and Celebrity Boot Camp. For later this year, ABC is planning I'm a Celebrity ...Get Me Out of Here!, which would strand minor stars in a remote location. CBS is suing over the similarity to Survivor, for which the network has, of course, pondered a celebrity version...
...choi, Nam Nai-choi and Lan Nai Tsai - the man?s name is its own spoonerism), the body-parts count reads: one head burst, one head sliced by a scythe, one head impaled with a stick, one hand nailed, one stomach ripped open and eviscerated, one long strand of intestine used in an attempted strangulation...
...Like a strand of tightly woven twine, the spinal cord is actually made up of thousands of nerve fibers that are strongest and most effective when they work as an intact unit. Even the slightest fraying of the cord can interrupt or weaken signals traveling from the brain to the muscles, in some cases resulting in paralysis. To bridge these gaps in the tapestry of nerve cells, you have to either coax existing neurons to grow across the neural divide or introduce new cells to replace the damaged ones. Often the two strategies feed off each other: the growth...