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...isn't just tech companies that are joining the fray. Bricks-and-mortar bookseller Barnes & Noble, which in the U.S. offers access to 750,000 e-books on its website, is rumored to be pondering the development of its own e-reader to rival the Kindle. (The retailer already has a partnership to sell e-readers made by IREX, a spin-off of Holland's Royal Philips Electronics.) Major newspaper and magazine publishers, which are suffering mightily from the loss of subscribers and advertisers to the recession and the Internet, are also getting involved. News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert...
...outrageous and inconvenient as this new law might seem, the punishment for not complying to quarantine orders can consist of a 30-day jail sentence and/or a $1000 fine. UHS is starting to look pretty tame, isn...
...like most head-scratchers right now, Lepri isn't likely anytime soon to learn how the Nobel committee came to its decision - or precisely why. For all the attention focused on its annual award, the Nobel committee is a cloistered, enigmatic operation, as hard to read as the Soviet Politburo. While its website - the only source of information the organization provides to outsiders - broadly explains the nominating and selection process, it does little to illuminate inscrutable details like what criteria defines the eventual winner, and just who weighs in on the choice. Identities of non-winning candidates - and those...
Obama said that he was both "surprised and humbled" by the award, and there's no reason whatsoever to think that he wasn't. But that word humbled is an interesting one to think about. Humility is a virtue - except when it isn't. We think of it as one of the attributes that make up a certain quiet acceptance of one's lot, even saintliness - think of Pope John XXIII. At the same time, what the books call false humility - the act of constantly saying that one is not worthy, a not-so-subtle way of provoking someone else...
...spokeswoman Megumi Tezuka says she's surprised by the attention the program has received in recent days, since the program was announced in a press release on Sept. 10. Why isn't the suggestion made to non-Japanese-speaking travelers? "We didn't think [telling people to use the restroom] was a very important point of the program," says Tezuka. "We didn't think there would be such big news about it." Among ANA's other green programs include recycling plastic bottles and paper cups, using lighter items in the cabin (such as plastic bottles for wine instead of glass...