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...increasing urate levels across the board, the adverse effects could outweigh the beneficial ones, but if you’re talking about people with slow progression…the beneficial effects may outweigh the adverse effects,” Weisskopf said...
Those incentives, however, often do not outweigh the negatives, including a troubled school system, fewer flights in and out of the city and a reputation for official corruption - a lingering problem brought to the fore in recent weeks by the indictment of U.S. Rep. William Jefferson of New Orleans on bribery and corruption charges and the guilty plea of a former Orleans Parish School Board president, Ellenese Brooks-Simms, who admitted in June to taking more than $100,000 in bribes in exchange for her support of a multi-million dollar public school system contract...
...look at the iPhone as a laundry list of features and bugs is to miss the point (though if you did, the former would commandingly outweigh the latter). The iPhone isn't just the gadget du jour, it's a fresh new platform, an exceptionally powerful mobile computer that's still in its infancy. There's a full version of Apple's desktop operating system in there. The Palm and the Treo, et al., were merely harbingers of the era of true walk-around mobile computing that Jobs has just inaugurated. Hail to the chief...
...pare them down, then sell them--are more controversial but have perhaps made corporate America more efficient and competitive. Ramping up taxes on these guys could lead to unpleasant consequences: think about the next Google going unfunded because money was diverted to pay taxes. Losing such opportunities might far outweigh the few billion dollars in annual revenue the tax change would bring...
...same day, one of the top foreign policy Republicans on the Hill, Senator Richard Lugar, said in a surprising 50-min. speech on the Senate floor that Bush's new "surge" plan in Iraq is failing. "In my judgment, the costs and risks of continuing down the current path outweigh the potential benefits that might be achieved" in changing gears now, Lugar said. Other Republicans, from George Voinovich to John Warner, expressed similar impatience with the progress in Iraq, indicating more defections are not far behind...