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...Senate?s Democratic and Republican families had announced a marriage of convenience on immigration reform, Minority Leader Harry Reid ditched his Republican counterpart Bill Frist at the altar Friday, blocking the bi-partisan bill he had backed the day before. Stunned Senators headed to their home states for a two-week Easter recess, furious over the break-up. ?It's a war,? said Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter. Even members of Reid's own party, most notably Senator Ted Kennedy, who had worked for five years on an effective amnesty for the country's millions of illegal immigrants, was said...
...advertiser, it really turns out-of-home into a direct-response mechanism," says Alasdair Scott of Filter in London, the firm that developed BlueCasting, the Bluetooth-based system used in the Absolut campaign. The rock band Coldplay used BlueCasting last summer to launch its album X&Y. During a two-week period, 20,000 people downloaded video clips and sample tracks directly from posters in London's main rail terminals. Fifty bus-shelter ads in Britain for the movie Alien vs. Predator prompted 500,000 riders to vote for who would win the celluloid battle by pushing a button...
...Consumer Cookery For anyone who considers cooking a science, cooksillustrated.com is an invaluable resource. Like a Consumer Reports for chefs, the ad-free site posts rigorous tests of ingredients, kitchen implements and recipes. The technical tips and equipment ratings are first rate. After a two-week free trial, full access is $25 annually...
...Next year, the federal government and 13 states will conduct a two-week exercise focusing on how to cope with a New Madrid zone earthquake. They'll have a lot to plan for. Two government studies conducted in the wake of Katrina predicted that a 7.7 quake could kill up to 4,200 Memphis residents and injure another 70,000; destroy or damage 200,000 homes in the city of 1 million people; render one third of all hospital beds useless the day after the quake; and cause about $70 billion in damages. "My previous director used...
...Harvard men’s hockey team, there had been rest for the weary before the ECAC quarterfinals. The Crimson had a two-week break to regain its health and strength before facing off against St. Lawrence on Friday night in the first contest of a best-of-three series.But long before Harvard goalie John Daigneau was taken off the ice with the Crimson down 4-1 late in the third period and the game all but over, it was obvious that rest didn’t play a factor. Harvard stepped out of the locker room and could...