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Five Point Someone tells the story of three IIT students who refuse to make that trade-off, choosing instead to study less and play more. Hari, Alok and Ryan sleep, stumble and cheat their way through Manufacturing Processes and Applied Mechanics to leave room for bigger priorities: vodka, weed and...
"It's very frustrating," says Jordan Levin, CEO of the WB. "Free TV is in the public interest, and yet laws are facilitating audience growth for cable." But regulation is the networks' trade-off for free access to broadcast spectrums worth billions of dollars. So the new network schedules seek...
Some argue that the earlier decision enriches the academic experience. Namely, it allows concentrations to incorporate an additional semester of sophomore tutorial. To be sure, the tutorial system at Harvard is the highlight of many students’ four years. Nevertheless, the trade-off offers a considerable and more compelling...
On it goes. Launching a new food line is no small undertaking. Consumer research and continual tinkering with the formula can cost millions of dollars and require two years from concept to shelf. Diet foods are trickiest because a company must determine the trade-off between taste and calorie count...
Can honey sweeten your health? Researchers at the University of California at Davis gave volunteers four tablespoons of buckwheat honey a day for a month and found that honey consumption was directly related to blood levels of polyphenols--antioxidant compounds found in fruits, vegetables and tea that have been linked...