150 Favorite American Structures; Empire State Building Tops the List
A survey of Americans' favorite 150 buildings and structures placed the Empire State Building
at the top spot, followed by the White House No. 2, the Golden Gate Bridge
No.5, the U.S. Capitol No.6 and Chrysler Building in New York No.9, reports
WSJ.
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Peak Web traffic during the
game was down more than
62% this Super Bowl compared with last year for 21 of the total 35
marketers in the game, 
Global wine consumption
over the next five years would grow by 9% in market value to $117
billion from $107 billion in 2005, according to a study commissioned by the organizers of the
Advertising during
the Super Bowl game has accounted for 682 minutes (over 11 hours)
of commercial time
throughout the past 20 years (1987-2006), representing 221 different
advertisers, more than 1,400
commercial announcements, and translate into $1.72
billion of ad sales, 
A
recent book, The Real Toy Story starts off reminding us how toys
inspire love and help children develop intellectually, physically,
emotionally and socially. But the rest of the book paints the industry as
a shiny apple that is practically rotten to the core, writes USA Today.
Here are just some interesting facts on the U.S. toy market.
More
Americans plan to take
advantage of retailers’ promotions of HDTVs for Super Bowl as 2.5 million
are expected to purchase a new television
for Super Bowl Sunday, 
Macau,
a city of 450,000 , the former
Portuguese colony returned to China in 1999, has
overtaken Las Vegas as the world's No. 1 gambling market with $6.485
billion gaming revenue from January through November 2006, compared to
Las Vegas' $6.079 billion.
In
2006 more Americans packed up their belongings and headed to the West and
Southeast, while the Central Northeast experienced an increase in
residents departing, according to United Van Lines' 
