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...these advantages do not excuse some of Apple’s more egregious technological sins. Take, for example, the lack of Flash support on the iPod touch, iPad, and iPhone. Nor do they absolve Apple of its failure to adopt industry standards for its desktop hardware—the iMac uses custom parts that make it almost impossible to upgrade anything more specialized than the memory or hard drive, and the Mac Pro’s parts are all flashed with a special BIOS that makes using non-Apple approved hardware extremely difficult...
Ultimately, however, it's a mistake to use any one storm - or even a season's worth of storms - to disprove climate change (or to prove it; some environmentalists have wrongly tied the lack of snow in Vancouver, the site of the Winter Olympic Games, which begin this week, to global warming). Weather is what will happen next weekend; climate is what will happen over the next decades and centuries. And while our ability to predict the former has become reasonably reliable, scientists are still a long way from being able to make accurate projections about the future...
...atheists and others whose religious beliefs do not involve praying to a God. This nominal objection is important because, in a country with a commitment to the separation of church and state, for any group to be disadvantaged or not included in the breakfast by virtue of their lack of faith in God, would be unfair. This event was meant to be an occasion to promote inclusivity and concord, and it would be sadly ironic if it ended up doing the opposite...
While private sector firms can rely on consultants and venture capitalists to raise money for start-ups, social enterprises largely lack a similar infrastructure, said Alan A. Khazei ’83, a Law School graduate who is advising the fund...
...underfortified. At the beginning of March, Bravo Company's 1st Platoon began a rotation out at the TCPs that would ultimately last 21 days, two weeks longer than the usual rotation. Specialist Paul Cortez was put in charge of TCP2. The spiral of poor discipline, substance abuse, brutality and lack of senior oversight that began months ago was continuing unabated. By March 12, the small group of young soldiers Cortez was leading, including Steven Green, had reached their breaking point...