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...Some have two or three depending on how many children are in the house. The cycle of upgrading PCs has been fairly steady. It has been driven by more powerful processors from companies like Intel (INTC), new operating systems from Microsoft (MSFT), and broadband which gives the PC owner access to a universe that did not exist a decade...
Other institutions such as Yale, Columbia, MIT and Stanford have already adopted “open courseware” programs that allow the general public free access to lecture notes, exams and videos online...
...growth slowing and landline business shrinking Verizon (VZ) has come up with a novel idea - $5 a month landline service. According to The Wall Street Journal, "Verizon believes the plan could help slow the rate of landline customers cutting the cord, so to speak. The company lost 3.7 million access lines, or 9.3% of its base, in 2008." The phone will take incoming calls and limited calls out. People will have to pay for additional telephoning at a modest price. Of course, smart people may use their cell to call out and take calls on their landline...
Though the U.S. military is already taking some necessary first steps to address the problem, they are not enough. Hiring 250 additional mental-health practitioners is a start, but even more should be hired and dispersed around the world where troops can access them. Should funding be an issue, money should be allocated from other programs. This is no area to cut costs; there is no higher priority than the health of our troops...
...difficulty of assessing a president who's just left office is, in effect, he's running against himself. It's particularly true with a polarizing president - it takes time for those emotions to cool. It takes time to get access to papers, it takes time for a president and his policies to be assessed against his successors, and to see how they deal with the same issues...