We all know that Nintendo’s little white wunderkind, Wii, is in high demand and short supply. How short that supply is, exactly, has been the product of guesswork and estimation, but the company’s outgoing marketing head George Harrison has finally given a definitive answer.
A: Those who think so follow this logic: When you shake a soda can, little molecules of carbon dioxide bump into each other and form bubbles. These bubbles hang around on the sides and bottom of the can until you pop the top, at which time they shoot out, eager to escape to the lower air pressure outside the can
If the Bush administration succeeds in its latest request for funding for the war in Iraq, the total cost would rise to $611.5 billion, according to the National Priorities Project, a nonprofit research group. The amount got us wondering: What would $611 billion buy?
Learning to listen — I mean really listen — is the single-most important thing you can do to improve communication in your life. It’s unreal how many varied aspects of our lives are directly and indirectly controlled by our ability (or, most often, inability) to listen. Our relationships run into communication problems everyday…
Horizontal eye movements are thought to cause the two hemispheres of the brain to interact more with one another.
Near. Although AAA of California is reporting some drivers are now paying $4 a gallon for regular unleaded gasoline, local Cali station KSBW found gas stations in Gorda, south of Big Sur, currently charging $5 per gallon for gas. While that’s obviously an isolated occurrence, the average price is getting pretty high up the cost meter.
Get used to it. The days of cheap energy are over.
Yahoo! and Microsoft have removed Iran from the country lists of their webmail services as stronger US sanctions against the Islamic republic begin to bite.
European stocks erased gains and gold jumped to a 28-year high of $845 an ounce on Wednesday as the dollar hit new record lows of $1.47 to the euro and $2.10 to the British pound. “The flight out of the dollar has been relentless,” said Kamal Sharma, currency strategist at Bank of America.
