Word: exceptionality
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...Cornell is far from unflawed, as it will be hurt by graduation arguably more than any team except for Penn. The Big Red loses its starting frontcourt in Second Team All-Ivy center Andrew Naeve—who led the league in blocks and also averaged 10.5 points and 7.6 rebounds-per-game—and forward Ugo Ihekweazu. Starting guard Graham Dow, the school’s all-time leader in steals, also departs, but the main hole is up front...
...groves, where Stoeckel inspected the orange trees for canker and other diseases—“I just walked up and down the rows,” he says—didn’t really help his fitness. Nor did it help much of anything else, except maybe his pocketbook...
...buzzed by the Foreign Minister, the Minister of Regional Zones and the director of the Sao Tome-Portugal Business Association. (That was to be the only bulletin I caught. When I dropped by the local network hoping to meet some local journalists on a Saturday, I found it closed except for a man who explained apologetically that there was "no news at the weekend...
Google makes virtually all its money--$10.6 billion in revenue last year and $3.1 billion in after-tax profit--selling advertisements. But except for a few endeavors like Google Maps, it's a media firm that produces no content. Rather than take on established media outfits as outright competitors, Google has been trying to persuade them to let it help them find audiences and sell ads. Some media powers have signed up. But the prospect of a world organized on Google's terms remains unsettling to executives accustomed to controlling the path their products take to consumers...
...resolution also urges, but does not require, U.N. member nations to refrain from giving financial assistance to Iran except for humanitarian and development purposes, and bans Iranian exports of conventional arms. U.S. officials hope to use this provision to add the force of international law to its efforts to prevent Iran from smuggling arms to its allies elsewhere, particularly in Iraq, where the U.S. charges Tehran has been arming Shi'ite militias...