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Monthly Archives: June 2006
Improving on Perfection
When we teach Marketing in one of our business classes, along with Product, Price, Promotion, Placement we add a fifth "P": Packaging. And when introducing the topic we always use the same example as the paragon of perfection in packaging … Continue reading
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If It’s OK with God and Fairies….
The police have arrested a Penacook woman who advertises herself online as an "Amazing Goddess" and charged her with prostitution. According to the police, Suzan Belanger, 38, was running a prostitution business called Amazing Alternatives from 324 Village St. in … Continue reading
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Cross Purposes
New York, NY (June 28, 2006)–In a country known more for conflict than conservation, a joint effort by the government of Afghanistan and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has … Continue reading
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Clowns Attack Nuclear Warhead With Hammers
On Tuesday morning, a retired Catholic priest and two veterans put on clown suits, busted into a nuclear missile launch facility, and began beating the silo cover with hammers, in an attempt to take the Minuteman III missile off-line. Seriously. … Continue reading
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AT&T: We Now Own Customers Private Data
ONCE again, an online news outlet has published details about secret rooms in AT&T buildings where government spies are said to be gaining access to millions of private e-mail messages and other Internet traffic. This time, it’s Salon, which on … Continue reading
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PETA Claims Circus Cruel to Critters
PETA activists are cracking the whip on Springfield-based Merriam-Webster, demanding that the definition of "circus" be rewritten to label the big top as cruel to "captive" animal performers. The dictionary currently defines a circus as "an arena often covered by … Continue reading
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PETA Claims Circus Cruel to Critters
PETA activists are cracking the whip on Springfield-based Merriam-Webster, demanding that the definition of "circus" be rewritten to label the big top as cruel to "captive" animal performers. The dictionary currently defines a circus as "an arena often covered by … Continue reading
Where’s the Fire?
An ocean speed limit proposed by the federal government yesterday could help protect endangered right whales, but is expected to face stiff opposition from the shipping industry. The migration paths of the North Atlantic right whales significantly overlap with major … Continue reading
Posted in Weird Science
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Medical Care Costs Arm and Leg
Massachusetts has "the world’s costliest health care," with average annual spending above $7,000 per person, according to an analysis of federal data to be released today. The report by Boston University’s Alan Sager and Deborah Socolar, health care advocates at … Continue reading
Posted in Friends and Family
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Medical Care Costs Arm and Leg
Massachusetts has "the world’s costliest health care," with average annual spending above $7,000 per person, according to an analysis of federal data to be released today. The report by Boston University’s Alan Sager and Deborah Socolar, health care advocates at … Continue reading
Posted in Friends and Family
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Shell Game
Archaeologists say they have found evidence that in one respect people were behaving like thoroughly modern humans as early as 100,000 years ago: they were apparently decorating themselves with a kind of status-defining jewelry – the earliest known shell necklaces. … Continue reading
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So Much Media, So Little Time
The Dowbrigade is old enough to remember when we had more time than media. Long hot summer afternoons when we ran out of the paperback Ace and Tor science fiction novels we borrowed by the armload from Mother’s mysterious friend … Continue reading
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