Who reads spam e-mail?
“Chances are you’ve seen those e-mail ‘spam’ ads that tout the latest herbal remedy that promises dramatic weight loss. If you’re like most people, you just delete them,” Tara Parker-Pope writes for The New York Times. “But new research suggests that the spam ads related to weight loss appeal to a sizable minority of young adults, who not only read them but purchase the items they are selling, according to a new report in Southern Medical Journal.” Luxury cinema A new theatre in Pasadena, just north of Los Angeles, has a seriously high ticket price, U.S. National Public Radio reports. “‘Friday through Sunday is $29,’ the box-office assistant said. ‘Money through Thursday is $22.’ That’s right – $29 for a matinee. At the Gold Class Cinemas, that $29 entitled patrons to a movie in their choice of 40 reserved seats.” There is no bad seat in the house, says the company’s vice-president of marketing. “Which helps when you are stretched out in their microsuede recliners,” NPR reports. “They’
