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...growth driver over the last couple of years has been notebooks, and that's not changing. There's a shift from desktops to notebooks, and a shift within notebooks to come down in price as volume expands. Both of those trends are very good for us. We have entered a new class of notebook machines called netbooks, which are small machines with 10-inch screens. You don't use them for content creation, but they are great for simple things like surfing the net and e-mail. And they're taking off. They're at great price points...
...doubled from 2004 to 2006--to about 400, according to a study by the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers in Washington. Growth has continued since then: giving circles have donated $100 million over the past four years. And the ragged economy may be accelerating the trend. In Cadillac, Mich., Laurie Melstrom formed a giving circle in early October--just as the stock market was swooning. "This economic downturn has a lot of people breaking out into a sweat," says the 54-year-old homemaker. "Yet everyone said, 'Count me in.'" Individually, the group's 10 or 12 prospective members...
...idea that liberal—or untraditional—scholarship is undesirable is one fundamentally opposed to the ideal of academia, which has proven most influential when it has pressed conventional knowledge to its limits and challenged traditional ways of thinking. It is perhaps true is that the trend of academic scholarship today lends itself to progressive thinking, as postmodernist and poststructuralist analytical frameworks inherently lend themselves to a liberal view of the world. Taking nothing for granted, these styles of teaching encourage critical approaches to the establishment (whether conventional scientific wisdom or the literary canon). The underlying philosophy...
...extraordinary alumni publication. It is one of the greatest in the country and has a great following.” The market for such a specialized niche can be tight, and 02138 certainly experienced the advertisement squeeze.Perhaps the larger message here, however, is not 02138-specific. The troubling trend of folding magazines everywhere presents a window into the possible future of print media, in this age and this economy.BEYOND THE IVY GATES02138 is certainly not the only one of its kind to go under with the economy. Just last week, The Christian Science Monitor announced that they would cease daily...
...There is a very clear trend from our bellwether precincts that turnout for the Republican precincts are significantly exceeding [Democratic precincts]," said Lew Oliver, chairman of McCain's campaign in Orange County, Fla. "We think we're running 5% or 6% ahead, maybe as much as 10%. The enthusiasm is just enormous...