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...What Dell really risks is playing the fool in front of its investors again. The company was late getting into the retail business and away from the model of selling all of its machines via the internet or phone. As rivals like Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) have moved further into the software and services businesses, Dell has been flat-footed. Dell plans to get into the handset business, which is already crowded with cut-throat competition from RIM (RIMM), Apple (AAPL), Nokia (NOK), and Samsung...
...then it was too late to stop my parade down the aisle! Proud fool that I was, I hadn’t taken Daddy’s arm when we’d left Marshall and Mrs. Graham. I just assumed he was behind me. But while Daddy stopped at the sanctuary doors to gab away, I was already flouncing down the aisle, unaware and unaccompanied!Well, don’t you know that just when I got out into the big middle of everything that blasted organ cut off. I was walking—clanking—down...
...balance of evidence so far suggests that while trying to quit one drug by taking another may be useful, you don't get something for nothing. Swallowing a pill is better than poisoning your lungs with smoke or pickling your liver with bourbon, but you shouldn't fool yourself into thinking the pill can't harm...
...equipped with forehead and ear sensors that read two kinds of brain waves - alpha and beta, naturally - then relay signals to the bases of the toys, triggering fans that cause the balls to rise. Mindflex's headgear comes with earlobe clips, which significantly increase the I-look-like-a-fool factor. The game requires players to move the ball sideways as well as vertically. There's a knob on the base unit that players must turn (the old-fashioned way, with their hands) while focusing to get the ball, for example, through a tiny hoop. At the toy fair...
...cardiologist Herbert Benson at Harvard University challenged that finding, reporting that complications occurred in 52% of heart-bypass patients who received intercessory prayer and 51% of those who didn't. Sloan says even attempting to find a scientific basis for a link between prayer and healing is a "fool's errand" - and for the most basic methodological reason. "It's impossible to know how much prayer is received," he says, "and since you don't know that, you can't determine dose...