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...along with debit cards and reasonably priced consumer loans, these businesses hope to pocket a chunk of the more than $10 billion in fees that check cashers, payday loaners and pawn shops collect each year. Long ignored by traditional financial institutions, the unbanked get their modest earnings shaved even thinner by the high fees they pay simply to cash their paychecks. That's beginning to change as banks seek out new revenue sources and the unbanked enjoy a little more financial flexibility...
...There was always Pop Art, of course. And in the same years that abstraction was getting thinner and flatter, Pop gave artists a way to reintroduce the recognizable imagery that Greenberg thought was hopelessly retro. But by the '70s the energies of Pop were running out too. Painting appeared to have painted itself into a dead end. It was just around then that Murray, who was born in Chicago in 1940, got seriously to work. Murray had graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1962 and arrived in New York City five years later with her first husband...
Happily, that isn't yet the case. For while the study can explain some friendships--the cast of The Facts of Life, for instance, or the together-through-thin-and-thinner bond of Paris & Nicole--it doesn't account for so many of history's finest partnerships: Laurel & Hardy, Skipper & Gilligan, Abbott & Costello, Siskel & Ebert, and those most enduring of all buddies, Ernie & Bert...
...study in the July issue of Sociology of Education highlights a factor that doesn't immediately come to mind: obesity. Using college enrollment as a measure of academic success, University of Texas at Austin sociologist Robert Crosnoe found that obese students had a worse experience at school than their thinner peers and were less likely to attend college, and that the effects of being overweight hurt girls far more than boys...
...adage, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Throw film composer Nicholas Hooper into that category, too, for his deeply felt (if occasionally intrusive) score. Their technique of nipping excess plot from denser portions of the film and grafting them onto thinner places is an ingenious way to make even dramatic edits blend right...