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Since this is the last Gadget of the Week column before Christmas, I decided to lend a hand to any panicked last-minute shopper-or any lucky electronics store gift-card recipient. We covered a lot of great potential gifts in November's tech buyer's guide, but here are a few more essentials...
...idea sometimes starts out small. In 1974, after earning his Ph.D. in the U.S., Muhammad Yunus was teaching economics at Bangladesh's Chittagong University. When a deadly famine struck the country, Yunus, eager to lend a helping hand, paid off the money owed to loan sharks by a group of impoverished villagers struggling to survive; they should repay him, he said, "when they could." Eventually they did, but that was not the most significant aspect of the episode. While the total sum was only about $27, that a stranger would trust them with his cash gave the villagers an appreciation...
Despite my unbounded love for it, I have to admit that “Project Runway”—the fashion-oriented competition show whose third season aired on Bravo this summer and fall—doesn’t really lend itself to a “Greatest Moments” list. But the show did boast a few one-time occurrences so generally wonderful as to deserve note, and for this reason I humbly submit the following list: 5. Michael Kors’s mother. My initial reaction to Ms. Kors’s appearance...
...without Leon? Friend, lifesaver, writer extraordinaire, our Editor-At-Large was far from an absentee contributor this year. His brainchildren—the positive psychology story, the faith issue, the study drug scrutiny—have been some of FM’s biggest successes. Always on call to lend his brain to fellow editors and freshman compers alike, Leon is, quite simply, the best...
...think that's something for me to comment on. We're working on our own portions of a plan, and I provide information to Gen. Casey on an operational level. I believe in the mission. It is what it is, and it is not going to lend itself to a timetable. It's just not. I personally would hate to see whether a timetable causes us to take actions on the ground that we know to be ill-advised...