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...Smile In case you've missed the hoopla, the iPad is a touchscreen slate or tablet computer, about yay big diagonally (where yay = 9.7 in., or about 25 cm), weighing in at just 1.5 lb. (680 g). For Apple, there's something novel about the circumstances of its launch. When the iPhone was released, Apple was a novice underdog entering a smart-phone market dominated by huge, established players like Nokia, Windows Mobile, Palm, Sony Ericsson and BlackBerry. But with the release of the iPad, Apple is an overdog for the first time. The smell of backlash...
...little calmer, I remind Jobs that at the product launch of the iPad in January, he had stood in front of two street signs, one reading "Liberal Arts," the other "Technology." "This is where I have always seen Apple," he told the audience, "at the intersection of the Liberal Arts and Technology...
...Lisbon Treaty, Europe's quasi-constitution, forbids bailouts for the reckless. Moreover, in the last few months the euro has lost more than 10% against the dollar, and the fiscal chickens have come home to roost. The central problem - as critics of the euro predicted before the currency's launch - is not Germany's tightfistedness; it is a common monetary policy without a common polity that sets fiscal policy. (See pictures of immigration in Europe...
...greatest obstacle to the arms-control progress may be convincing decision makers on both sides that banishing the ghosts of the Cold War should be an urgent priority, and that it is no longer acceptable to live in a world with thousands of thermonuclear weapons primed and ready to launch. As Andreasen says, "The key to deep cuts is not deep control treaties; rather, it is to deepen and widen the consensus that our security will be enhanced by further reducing the role of nuclear weapons in security policies. The new START agreement is one step in that process...
...According to the White House, the START follow-on will cut deployed warheads - those mounted on intercontinental missiles or bombers - to 1,550 for each side, which is about 30% below current levels. The total number of missiles and bombers available for launch at any given time will be cut to 700, less than half of current levels. That still leaves more than enough firepower to destroy the infrastructure and war-fighting capacity of both nations many times over. What's more, the treaty focuses only on deployed warheads, and does not limit the amount of warheads, missiles and bombers...