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...filing reveals a reluctance to go public, even though the two founders, former Stanford computer-science graduate students who together will own about 32% of the company's shares, could emerge worth some $4 billion each. In a folksy manifesto that's part of the filing, the founders liken themselves, a tad arrogantly, to Warren Buffett, saying they will take risks as though Google were a private company and will offer no guidance on predicted earnings...
...this particular case, BGLTSA co-chair Stephanie M. Skier ’05 has decided to liken the battle for gender non-specific washrooms to the much more significant fight for handicap-accessible bathrooms. Her comparison of the plight of a transsexual person to the plight of a paraplegic is not only absurd but also highly offensive to both the disabled and transsexuals alike. Suggesting that the discomfort felt by a transsexual choosing whether to enter a door marked with a stick figure in a skirt or pants is comparable to that suffered by someone who does not have...
...surprise that George W. Bush rejected the Vietnam analogy when he spoke to the nation Tuesday night. Did that reporter really think Bush would liken the situation in Iraq to America's great quagmire? But it was a surprise that Bush sounded so much like that other wartime Texan, Lyndon Johnson. His jab that the mere mention of the Vietnam analogy was demoralizing to troops and comforting to enemies seemed, ironically, to be a reminder of the 60s when protestors, not without cause, were chided the same way. With his literally limitless commitment to government power in Iraq Bush sounded...
Visitors usually liken the Postojna caves in southwestern Slovenia to the interior of a cathedral?cavernous, soaring, sublime. The caves, first opened to the public in 1819, are a 23-km warren of underground galleries, chambers and tunnels, all adorned with stalactites and stalagmites formed over the past 2 million years. In the 1820s, one of the largest chambers was the venue for grand balls, complete with candlelight and festive decorations. In those days visitors rode into the caves in horse-drawn carriages. With the installation of electric lighting a century ago, the largest and arguably most beautiful chamber became...
Cardiologists have long known that if you carry extra weight around your waist, which they liken to being shaped like an apple, you are at greater risk of heart disease. The other configuration, being shaped like a pear, with excess weight around the hips, doesn't eliminate your risk but seems to lessen it. Over the years it has become clear that apple-shaped folks have a certain kind of metabolism: they are more likely to be resistant to insulin, have high amounts of triglycerides (one of the fatty molecules you don't want too much of in your blood...