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...regardless of how sales go this season, age compression is here to stay. Some analysts think the worst of it may be over and that toymakers have figured out how to adapt. Kids "expect a bit more electronic sizzle from their toys, but they are still kids at heart, and kids love toys," analyst McGowan recently wrote in an industry report...
...guise as a columnist at FORTUNE, kicks butt in print. In Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, Bing unloads on the famed Chinese strategist whose treatise, The Art of War, launched a thousand battles in China centuries ago--and a million management books in the past decade purporting to adapt Tzu's sublime Eastern battle philosophy to winning in Western business conflicts. Tzu counseled self-knowledge and restraint. "Subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful" tactic, says Tzu. Nonsense, says Bing. The traits rewarded in business are "raw, amoral, naked aggression and the will to win." Even...
...Center at Loughborough University in England. In Victorian workhouses, to give just one example, folks used to sit on benches and drape themselves on long ropes, called hang-overs, to sleep. They must have got used to it, Horne says. Indeed, the sleep system can be very flexible and adapt quickly to different conditions. "It's peace of mind rather than physical comfort that counts anyway," says Horne...
...coach was frank, however, cautioning Lederman that the senior’s time to adapt was limited...
...Militarily, of course, the insurgents may be forced to adapt their operating methods in the wake of losing Fallujah, which had functioned as a sanctuary that could provide a center for logistics, training and command for operations throughout northern Iraq and the capital. And the fact that a large-scale offensive in Mosul has followed so hard on the heels of Fallujah suggests U.S. commanders are determined to keep the guerrillas on the back foot and prevent the emergence of any new sanctuaries in which they're allowed to operate unmolested. Battles are likely to rage throughout the mostly Sunni...