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...class, physically ill-favored souls were suddenly found to be capable of creating things of astonishing beauty. People reacted as if vast quantities of treasure were discovered in the trunk of a broken-down Hyundai abandoned on their street. It was always there, but nobody had ever bothered to look. Thanks to that grouchy Simon Cowell (and YouTube), the two amateur singers each became overnight sensations, bringing lumps to the throats and surreptitious wiping of the eyes to millions, including the show's judges. (See pictures of the unlikely ascendance of Susan Boyle...
...their ability to attract enough wealthy out-of-state students to help fill their coffers. But it will become difficult to continue competing with private institutions if they cannot simultaneously expand their research capacity and recruit top-flight faculty. And the struggling economy is forcing even wealthy families to look for the best value for their tuition dollars. For just $5,000 more in tuition, an out-of-state student could forgo Michigan for New York University, the nation's largest private school with nearly double the number of faculty. In recent years, international enrollments at American public universities...
...would sell nearly 3.8 million iPhones. Most educated guesses were around 3.1 million. In a world where securities analysts send spies to Apple stores and bribe hardware component suppliers in Taiwan for data on iPhone parts shipments, experts are not supposed to be off that much. It makes them look bad, but it makes Apple look good, both for its ability to keep things secret and for building a handset that is expensive, making it a real aspirational product for many of the people who buy it. Some of the consumers walking into A&T (T) stores don't have...
...also-ran Palm (PALM) which is about to release its Pre, the company's last shot at viability. The fact that the Pre will be sold by Sprint (S) which has lower customer satisfaction rating than most short order take-out restaurants makes the future of the little company look bleak. RIMM's stock, on the other hand, has traded up even more than Apple's has this year. That can be attributed to either hope over reason, or the fact that a second smartphone company is doing well, which leaves even less room at the top of the handset...
...usually a bad idea to try to explain things that do not make sense. It is counterintuitive that expensive phones should sell well when the economy is shrinking, the credit markets look like a dust bowl, and people are losing jobs...