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...heartbreaking folly - a soldier accidentally struck down by a Marine Humvee driving through the night, a truck that rolls over and crushes a group of Iraqi detainees - the likes of which can be found in endless wartime chronicles. Where Campbell's narrative resonates is in his evocation of the growth of a young military leader. As he grapples with how best to discipline his men, when to stand up for them and how purposeful and calculated a military leader must be in the management of his troops, Campbell traces the development of a skill set as important as any battlefield...
...Over the coming years, America will expand and replace its aging transportation infrastructure. Including high-speed trains in this equation will shorten travel time and be a boon to long-term economic growth and the environment. If we are wise enough to embrace high-speed rail, foreign tourists will one day travel through this country and feel the same sense of wonderment that my friend did on his first day in Shanghai...
Angwin's book is a tour through MySpace's turbulent adolescence. The site's massive growth made it an easy target for hackers, privacy advocates, parent groups, competitors and (fortunately for co-founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe) investors with fat checkbooks. But with its purchase by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, MySpace has gone from freewheeling, easy-living Web start-up to establishment player. And as it reluctantly approaches maturity, MySpace has new challenges to face, securing advertisers and innovating new features chief among them. Oh yeah - and a pesky little start-up called Facebook...
Angwin, a technology writer at the Wall Street Journal, is equally adept at breaking down both the technological and the business sides of MySpace's development. It's a richly detailed portrait of the growth of a modern media company, complete with all the growing pains, feuds and business machinations that accompany it. Like a MySpace user, though, sometimes Angwin has a tendency to overshare - at one point, the pornography habits of MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson are discussed...
...become unaffordable no matter what happens. A lot of the expense is a consequence of the drug-regulatory authorities, who pile on regulation after regulation, which makes getting a drug to market hugely expensive. But the expectations of investors have to be tempered as well. The 15-20% [growth] of some companies is not going to be possible in the future. A third of staff of some big pharmacy companies work in marketing, and many companies spend twice as much on marketing as R&D. That has got to go. I mean for Christ's sake, it's hopeless...