Most ads have sold for about $3 million per 30-second spot-an all-time high
price for the Super Bowl, which is the most watched event in the nation, with
about 100 million U.S. viewers.
All those words and phrases are on Lake Superior State University's annual List
of Words to Be Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and
General Uselessness.
Body Image (as we discussed in class):
While pop culture seems to worship the
hourglass figure
for females,
with a tiny waist, big boobs and curvy hips
à la Marilyn Monroe
, this may not
be optimal, says Elizabeth Cashdan of the University of Utah.
That's because the hormones that make women physically stronger, more
competitive and better able to deal with stress also tend to redistribute fat
from the hips to the waist.
The Los Angeles-based
cameraman has lived in his comfortable Hollywood home without throwing away a
single piece of trash, from wine
bottles to chewing gum and pizza boxes.
An airline passenger forced to cover his T-shirt because it displayed Arabic script has been awarded 240,000 dollars in compensation, campaigners said Monday.
Bozeman City, Montana now asks all applicants for jobs to 'Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.,' the City form states. There are then three lines where applicants can list the Web sites, their user names and log-in information and their passwords.
Issued on April 6, 2010 in San Francisco. This article was written by Miguel Helft in the New York Times. He is a well known author for the New York Times that covers Internet companies such as Google or Yahoo. This article discusses how photographers and other artists filed a lawsuit against google for the mass copying their work. The artists claimed that they were not adequately compensated by google for the use of their work. Google was given permission from the visual artists to scan their work onto the website, however the artists feel that this partnering program with Google turned out to be unfair. Google is now being sued for copyright infringement. This article is informative to all people because it shows that even largely popular websites like Google may not be as trustworthy as perceived.