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...going into economic prognostication. But I do think that, in essence, the computer is a tool of productivity, and in typical, traditional downturns in the past, tech has done better than other industries for that reason. The other thing that has happened since the last downturn is, the PC has become indispensable. This is the first time in our lives when, if you go home tonight and your computer breaks, are you going to say "Oh well, we're in an economic downturn, I'm not going...
...scourge of the Miami exile community, voiced praise for (but didn't outright endorse) Obama: "Without a doubt," Castro wrote this morning in Cuba's state-controlled media, "Obama is more intelligent, cultured and levelheaded" than McCain. DiBenigno, a Cuban American and daughter of exiles, tells TIME, "Castro has done us a big favor...
Theoretically, interviewers are supposed to stop voters at random - choosing, for example, every ninth voter to survey. But that is easier said than done when you are standing outside a crowded polling place desperately searching for a friendly face...
...example, the interviewer might approach every ninth voter. But this is a lot easier said than done when you are standing more than 40 feet outside of a busy polling place at rush hour. About half of the people approached decline to participate (a percentage that has been steadily rising over the past several decades...
...Once melamine showed up in pet food supplies, Nestle says, it was likely that it would appear in animal feed and eventually human food. "You can't separate the food supplies of animals, pets and people," she says. "That's an enormous warning sign that if something wasn't done immediately to clean up the food safety problem, this would leak into the human food supply...