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...will even draw the route for you. Why would Yell, whose own site offers similar services, sell info to a competitor? "It's a benefit to the advertisers who pay us money," says Yell spokesman John Salmon. Paying for more prominent listings, he says, gives companies "an additional shop window." For Google, and its competitors like Yahoo!, local search advertising has become a hot new revenue stream; last week the California-based pioneer announced first quarter revenue of $1.26 billion - nearly double its turnover for the same period last year. "Search is integrating itself into every part of our lives...
...have unprotected sex when their viral load--or measure of the virus in their bloodstream--is low. During the first trimester of pregnancy, the women take a break from any antiretroviral drugs they may have been taking so that the fetus is not exposed during this critical developmental window. But drug treatment is resumed or begun in the second trimester and continued through the end of the pregnancy. At the time of delivery and for six weeks afterward, the newborn is given AZT every six hours. "As long as those procedures are followed, the risk of transmission is very...
...amazing how the Polish people showed appreciation for what John Paul II did for our country. The night after he died, I lit a candle as a tribute to his 26 years of service. When I put it in the window of my flat, I saw hundreds of other candles in nearby buildings. The Pope was instrumental in ending communism in the 1980s, and thanks to him Poland became a better nation...
...fewer criminals. Levitt has faced scorching criticism for that claim, which he has been making since 2001. But here and throughout the book he remains blissfully devoted to facts, even unpleasant ones. He calmly displays evidence that abortion has had a greater effect on crime than have broken-window strategies of policing or economic prosperity. But as a crime-control measure, it is "terribly inefficient," he writes, as only an economist could, since the number of aborted fetuses is so exponentially greater than the number of lives saved through less violence...
When she falls asleep at the library she worries that she will be caught: “I will promptly be expelled and all notions of my intelligence thrown out the window. I will have to move to Key West and mop floors while living in a trailer with a guy named Bubba.” Perhaps this moment is supposed to be an ironic comment on the meaningless life of the over-privileged Ivy Leaguer. But it shouldn’t be a perhaps. This girl goes to Yale, she goes shopping for fun, and she writes...