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...same time, new display technologies are emerging that promise to improve battery life and make devices more portable and easier to read. U.K.-based Plastic Logic hopes to introduce next year the first e-reader with a plastic screen that will reduce glare and be less prone to cracking when dropped by ham-fisted owners. Electronic-ink technology is set to move from black and white to color by the end of 2010. Even video is on the horizon. "We'll see a range of models start to appear over the first half of 2010" offering "a range of different...
...good war” in Afghanistan. The United States hasn’t won a ground war in over half a century, and now one of the smartest presidents in modern American history thinks he can win two of them. One struggles in vain to find the logic in this lunacy...
...kept low this year by Federal Reserve purchases, investor demand and other factors - is up. If you own a 10-year Treasury bond yielding 3.5%, interest rates rising to 4% or 5% or higher mean your bond (with its rate stuck at 3.5%) falls in value. That's the logic of bonds: when interest rates rise, bond prices fall. Since 1981, when the 10-year Treasury rate topped 15% amid fears of runaway inflation, the interest-rate trend has been downward, bringing on a long bull market in bonds. One of these days, the trend will shift...
...volunteer jurors, ranging from Harvard undergraduates to local high school students, also offered opinions on individual aspects of the Harvard Law School students’ performances. Jurors commented on the logic presented to the jury and the strength of opening and closing arguments...
...making their decision, the court will review its logic in 2005's Roper v. Simmons, which held that individuals could not be sentenced to death for crimes committed under the age of 18, as the court found that minors had a "lack of maturity." The petitioners in Graham and Sullivan are arguing for a similar standard for their noncapital offenses...