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...recycled promise that the Internet was about to find a new home on the displays of mobile phones is probably broke by now. Although beset by bad marketing and uncertain demand, the mobile Internet's fundamental problem has been that the tiny phone screen is a lousy way to absorb information from the Net. Stop me if you've heard this one before, but that may be about to change. Opera, the tiny Norwegian upstart whose PC browser has in the last 18 months lured some 12 million customers away from products like Microsoft's Internet Explorer, is about...
Some companies will simply help common drugs work more efficiently. Elan Drug Delivery, located in King of Prussia, Pa., pulverizes existing drugs to a size that maximizes the body's ability to absorb them. Naproxen sodium, a pain medication found in products such as Aleve, can take as long as two hours to exert its pain-relieving effect. Nano Systems has developed a crystal version of naproxen, still in clinical development, that works in 15 to 20 minutes. "Using NanoCrystals has not made naproxen a better drug"--just seven to eight times as fast as the commercial product, says Larry...
...Insurance Group and Princeton Insurance Co. have discontinued coverage in states with the largest awards, such as Nevada and Pennsylvania. Three significant malpractice insurers fell into liquidation in the past year. The insurers left in the worst markets--often smaller, physician-owned companies--do not have the capacity to absorb all the cast-off practitioners...
...period of excitement and expectation, holding the promise of success and sales for some, acclaim and awards for others. This year has brought a new high of activity, with the first of nearly 700 new titles already flooding bookshops - and taxing the capacity of the book-buying public to absorb them all. Literary pride has long been central to France's notion of an exception culturelle. While the French are certainly not immune to the lure of the moving image, they haven't swapped books for film and video with the same enthusiasm as many other European and societies...
...confront what was done to us and the importance of being resolute. I've also attended many memorials and funerals, which reinforced a lesson my father taught me long ago about being there for people when they need you most. It's a two-way street. People absorb strength from you, and you get it back from them...