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15 Sep 2009 10:15

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Biz: WE WANT BIGGER BURGERS (and smaller ones)

  • 47% of people want more burger choice; they heart red meat source
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12 Aug 2009 10:45

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World: The world’s population is bursting at the seams

  • 7 billion the world’s expected population in 2011, according to the 2009 World Population Data Sheet; that’s really fast
  • 97% of the population growth over the next 40 years will happen in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean source
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01 Jul 2009 10:42

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U.S.: Big cities are growing in population at the expense of suburbs

  • +0.97% The average increase in city population, barring hurricane-stricken New Orleans (which throws off stats), between July 2007 and July 2008; that’s a big leap
  • +1.11% The average increase in suburb population during the same period; that’s about the same as a year prior and way down from earlier in the decade source
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12 May 2009 08:54

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Biz, Tech: Like big, obtrusive ads? Of course you do. More are coming.

  • In times of recession, online ads get bigger. MSNBC is among the first in a long line of advertisers to switch to wide-format ads that take up full pages and recede, that make sidebars ultra-huge and makes it so that they never go away, ever. They’re all part of a group called the Online Publishers Assocation, which has agreed to use these ads. We have a feeling reading articles on the Internet is going to get annoying, but at least these sites aren’t charging. *sigh* source
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06 May 2009 11:52

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Tech: The new Kindle DX is everything we expected and … about that

It’s a bigger-screened Kindle, perfect for reading textbooks on. Newspapers, maybe. $489. Not cheap, but interesting. source
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