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Even more industry buzz these days surrounds Plastic Logic, a Silicon Valley stealth start-up just north of Apple. Everything in the reader it's developing will be made of plastic, from its non-LCD screen to its transistors. Recently I got a look at a Plastic Logic prototype. Like the iPhone, it's little more than a touchscreen, 8.5 in. by 11 in. (22 cm by 28 cm), linked wirelessly (like the Kindle) via a high-speed cellular network to a store that will support on-demand transactions of under a dollar. There are just two problems. Because everything...
...from doctors. Their symptoms might not require such medications, and when they do, cheaper generic drugs may be available. Such marketing probably drives up overall health-care costs. More important, new drugs that are aggressively marketed can pose a safety risk. Merck's heavy promotion of pain reliever Vioxx - look at Dorothy Hamill skating without any strain! - is a prime example of advertising gone awry. The drug was later taken off the market after it was found to increase risk for heart attacks...
...written description of the SEC's "investigative ineptitude" and "financial illiteracy." At the start of his oral statement, Markopolos injected a bit of metaphorical humor into his charge, describing the SEC as a regulatory agency that "roars like a mouse and fights like a flea." With the sober, academic look of an accountant, the former investment manager for Rampart Investment Management in Boston (he is currently an independent certified fraud examiner) detailed Madoff's phony split-strike conversion strategies and oddly "unsophisticated portfolio management." Markopolos said Madoff's "math never made sense" and his "return stream never resembled any known...
...used to walking on eggshells. And amazingly, the next guy is really laid back. Or you had a sexually numb marriage and you haven't been in any kind of state of erotic awakening for longer than you can remember, and somewhere in there, your trainer starts to look good. It's someone who presents the aspect of the relationship that was an unmet need...
...most. While his former deputy Jeanne Lambrew is widely respected for her policy knowledge, no one still there has Daschle's savvy and connections for shepherding legislation through the Senate, where the likes of Ted Kennedy and Max Baucus have their own strongly held notions of what reform should look like. His stature and close relationship with Obama also would have helped fight the impulses of some in the Administration - including chief economic adviser Larry Summers - to delay the push for health reform until after the economy gets fixed...