THIS WEEK’S HEADLINES:
Several noteworthy developments have impacted the mobile ecosystem over the last few years, such as the growth in advertising and applications. Let’s look at the top mobile trends that will continue to shape the industry.
“You can’t put a price on a good education”… or can you?
If you ask your parents or mentors how to become successful, their answer will most likely include four interrelated invisible scripts:
“Get the best education you can.”
“Colleges provide the best education.”
“The best colleges are expensive.”
“More college is better.”
Like so many of the invisible scripts we grow up with, three of these assumptions aren’t necessarily true.
It’s true that hybrids cost more than regular vehicles. This prompts many to wonder if the extra cost for these high efficiency cars is worth it, and in fact if the difference can be offset over time by the cash saved from buying less fuel.
This is time lapsed footage of an entire storm chase through north central South Dakota on May 22, 2010. The video starts with the storm still in the towering cumulus stage and ends with the storm gusting out as an outflow dominant high precipitation supercell, with several tornadoes including a violent wedge in between. – Skip Talbot
“He makes a bee line to me right after the talk, in front of everybody,” West says. “He just lets me have it. He says, ‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself, saying I’m not a progressive. Is that the best you can do? Who do you think you are?’ I smiled. I shook his hand. And a sister hollered in the back, ‘You can’t talk to professor West. That’s Dr. Cornel West. Who do you think you are?’
Moments after the Iranian president made the startling claim at the inauguration of a dam in a central province, it started to rain.
Prices over the past year prompted many farmers to jump into the watermelon market. All of those with exploding melons apparently were first-time users of the growth accelerator forchlorfenuron, though it has been widely available for some time, CCTV said.
Chinese regulations don’t forbid the drug, and it is allowed in the U.S. on kiwi fruit and grapes. But the report underscores how farmers in China are abusing both legal and illegal chemicals, with many farms misusing pesticides and fertilizers.
Another mummy, ancient Egyptian Princess Ahmose-Maryet-Amon, would also have needed bypass surgery if she’d lived today, according to researchers who examined the mummy and found blocked arteries in her heart in what’s now the oldest case of human heart disease.
Dispatches From The Front 