Word: logical
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...admit it: many of us have congratulated ourselves, if a bit guiltily, for buying a counterfeit branded handbag or DVD, pleased to have paid so little for something that was almost as good as the real thing. Most consumers would not knowingly apply the same logic to the medicine they take-who wants imitation Viagra? But people around the world may be unwittingly buying fake pharmaceuticals all the same. A raid of a ramshackle warehouse in southern China's Guangdong province last month turned up plenty of evidence that brand-name drugs are not always what they seem...
...eliminating known enemies. That, however, draws them in more deeply and continually runs the risk of killing civilians, because the known militants are deeply rooted in the civilian community in an area with some of the world's highest levels of population density. And military actions produce their own logic of escalation. When Palestinians inflict losses on the IDF - such as last week's ambushes in which Israel lost 13 men in two APCs blown up by roadside bombs - the Israeli military's own doctrines of deterrence demand that it hit back even harder...
According to Wheaton, the basic logic behind the Ivy League restrictions on offseason practicing is to ensure that players have time to be involved in other activities and don’t have their lives consumed year-round by soccer...
...scale, real-time data and churning them through a complex, highly proprietary black box to come up with esoteric investment strategies. Consumer companies for years have turned to data managers such as Acxiom and infoUSA to see how their products and those of their competitors play with various groups. Logic might dictate that Toyota Prius drivers wear Birkenstocks, but a deep data dive might uncover a fetish for Ferragamos...
Like playing the recorder, DJing has long been one of those things that anyone can do (badly), and in the MP3 age, its gotten even easier to do (and, logic dictates, worse-sounding): pimply techheads everywhere are filling the internet with cryable cross-genre “mash-ups” of old and new pop songs (cf. Jay Z’s lyrics on top of Pavement, Weezer, Sgt. Pepper). Erstwhile DJ, dork-stud and half of the folksy Kings of Convenience Erlend Oye doesn’t need to prove his musical chops, and as the DJ Kicks...