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...Google needs to focus on its core businesses like search, mail and Web-based applications, instead of pouring endless resources into experimental projects that never turn a profit (such as its ill-fated virtual world Lively, which will close at the end of month). "If they could fix their expense management, surely they could fix their product development as well. Google has a very poor product-development process," says Lindsay, who criticizes the firm for letting good products languish while encouraging engineers to tackle newer and more exciting projects instead. For example, its Chrome browser got positive reviews when...
...social chair of Suffolk County House of Correction Tutoring Program at the Phillip’s Brook’s House Association, he has been going to the facility once a week for two years. The Prison Education Committee, one of the few PBHA tutoring programs that focuses on assisting adults, gives its volunteers unique access to a community that is both isolated from mainstream society and in desperate need of aid. “This segment of the population, I think, is very much feared, ignored, [and] neglected,” says Rachel M. Singh...
...idea is always being willing to make yourself more agile, because you have to be ready to make decisions, and today’s decisions happen at the speed of light,” McConnell said. McConnell also noted that the intelligence agencies have shifted their focus so that terrorism is now considered a legitimate threat. He noted that the FBI—which is considered both an investigative and domestic intelligence agency—has made the prevention of terrorist attacks its “primary focus.” As director of the nation’s intelligence...
...While there are plenty of wasteful defense projects to consider excising as a part of this plan, Obama would be wise to focus on one that has plagued U.S. policymakers and taxpayers both for a quarter century: ballistic missile defense...
...have been numbered. [2] The drunken masses in the Bay State’s voting booths have decided they love marijuana and income taxes more than family entertainment and jobs for dogs. One can only assume the thousands of greyhounds simultaneously unemployed on January 1, 2010 will turn their focus from running races to running drugs.We followed Chiappini’s pre-track rituals: getting liquored up, praying to Anubis, the Egyptian dog-headed god, and burning several dollar bills to get used to the feeling of losing. There was no trouble getting new bills at the track because they...