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...Carolyn Fraser, a letterpress printer in Melbourne, Australia, adopts a different metaphor to explain the problem. "Verdana was designed for the limitations of the Web - it's dumbed down and overused. It's a bit like using Lego to build a skyscraper, when steel is clearly a superior choice...
...been under pressure from the government's auto task force to cut brands, and Pontiac, one of the brands sacrificed as GM restructured, was a big customer of the NUMMI facility. Toyota pleaded with GM to stay in the venture and offered to build other vehicles at the plant for GM, but to no avail...
...Best Buy had a big sale on Blu-ray discs, would you go out and buy a Blu-ray player? The energy markets are kind of like that - natural gas is really cheap, for now, but does that mean we should build infrastructure for a natural-gas-fueled economy...
...left demanding a withdrawal. The U.S. military has become far more ... nuanced when it comes to making requests of Presidents. The negotiations about what McChrystal can officially request will not take place anywhere near the public eye. It is very likely that more troops will be sent - to build and train the Afghan security forces, it will be said. Obama's problems on the left will be mitigated by the fact that most Democrats have also supported this war - as opposed to Iraq's - and have little desire to reverse themselves. They don't want to hurt the President...
...Experts also have doubts that Chinese regulators can get enough control over the Puer market to build a premier brand. Beijing's standards only apply to domestic producers; competitors in Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Burma can continue to grow and sell their own "Puer" tea. Hoffman, the collector, predicts that fakes will persist and urges caution. "This has always been a buyer-beware market, and it will always be thus," he says.(Read "Will China's New Food-Safety Laws Work...