Compete stats: Where do we spend our time--and register our identiies?

Susan Mernit has a great post about where who we trust our online identities to:"Jay Meattle's got a post --with data --reporting where Americans spend their time online. As you'd expect, MySpace, eBay, and Facebook are high on the list, proving the impact of social media and...

The Donald's pageant is a soap opera

"A 20-year-old Miss New Jersey USA, has resigned because she is pregnant, according to reports. Ashley Harder told a US newspaper she voluntarily stepped down because it is against pageant rules to compete while pregnant. Both the pageant and the runner-up for 2007 Miss New...

Athlete loses citizenship for competing in Israel

Amazingly, right along the heels of my previous post is this bit of blatant paranoid idiocy from Bahrain." January 06, 2007 Associated Press ...

Interview Prep for New Grads

"The stakes are high during job interviews, especially when you're a college student who is about to compete for your first job -- the one that could launch your career. It's no wonder you'll be nervous. But you can minimize your anxiety and put yourself in a position to win...

Wii's a way to work up sweat

MORE than 30,000 Australians have pre-ordered Nintendo's next-generation games console, which goes on sale at midnight on Wednesday."The Japanese games giant -- the dark horse of the $40 billion global gaming wars -- unveiled its secret weapon, Wii, to US audiences last...

Vista launch sparks competition between PC vendors [DELL, HP]

Dell is bolstering its IT service offerings to better compete with HP "November 30, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- As Microsoft Corp. prepares to sell the business version of its Windows Vista operating system, Dell Inc. is beefing up its IT service offerings to compete for...

Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Compiled by Sai.R

"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Contents 1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006-------------------------------------- 2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...

Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Compiled by Sai.R

"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Contents 1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006-------------------------------------- 2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...

Banks compete to finance Eurotunnel debt (AP)

" PARIS - Citigroup and a consortium of Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank have submitted competing bids to finance a deal restructuring Eurotunnel's staggering debt, the operator of the undersea rail tunnel linking Britain and France said Sunday. The Anglo-French company is to...

Does Natural Selection Drive The Evolution Of Cancer?

The dynamics of evolution are fully in play within the environment of a tumor (tumour), just as they are in forests and meadows, oceans and streams. This is the view of researchers in an emerging cross-disciplinary field that brings the thinking of ecologists and evolutionary...

tAl Jazeera |All The News from The Net

"NowAl Jazeera has got it english channel. "Al Jazeera, the Arabic television news channel, begins airing its 24-hour English-language service today in a bid to compete with Time Warner Inc.'s Cable News Network and the British Broadcasting Corp.'s BBC World. Al Jazeera...

Patrick Carpentier's site says he's going NASCAR Busch Series racing (ThatsRa...

" By JIM UTTER The Charlotte Observer According to a note posted on the home page of his official Web site, Patrick Carpentier, who has driven in the ChampCar World Series and Indy Racing League, plans to compete next season in the NASCAR Busch Series. The note does not...