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...point is the puzzle game Enigmo. Formerly a desktop game developed by Pangea Software of Austin, Texas, it was ported over to the iPhone in May around the time the iTunes App Store launched. Pangea started out selling it for $9.99. "The iPhone App Store has been a textbook example of supply and demand because at first there was a huge demand for the new apps, but there was a very small supply of them - only a few dozen games," founder Brian Greenstone told me. "So we could charge $9.99 easily for them...
...that's why the Martin-Chambliss race actually is a big deal: Chambliss is a textbook Bush-Cheney Republican - and every vote counts. Sixty seats would be better for the Democrats than 59, which would be better for the Democrats than 58. Six years is also a long time. In fact, Georgia is still an extremely conservative state, so if Chambliss can win at a time when the Republican Party is at its lowest ebb, he can probably hold his seat as long as he wants - which would be good news for Bush-style Republicans and bad news for Obama...
...media. "This new policy is happening because these incidents are happening more and more often and they realize they can't control the spread of the news," says David Bandurski, a researcher at the University of Hong Kong's China Media Project. Bandurski says the Chongqing case was a textbook example of the new policy, which he calls "Control 2.0." The government attempts to set the agenda on controversial issues by allowing initial reporting by the likes of Xinhua. At the same time, Beijing bars reporters from the increasingly popular so-called "city papers," which are commercially oriented, tabloid offshoots...
...research began when BU biology professor Richard B. Primack ’72 was revising his textbook on conservation biology and his section on climate change “kept on getting bigger and bigger...
...When I came into the business, I was 20; my father had died unexpectedly,” he says. “I was a BU student—they were not treated very well at bookstores. If you wanted a textbook, who else had it, apart from a college store...