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Peter Misek, technology analyst for Canaccord Adams, a financial-consulting firm, says Apple may have its hand forced by impatient investors who don't want to see their money lying around unused. "If the cash pile continues to grow," says Misek, "there will be investors who ask, What are you doing with our cash...
...brought out deep tension, division and several alarming incidents of violence. "There is this foreboding sense that things could turn really bad," Keerthi Thenakoon, the chief executive of the election-monitoring body Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE), told TIME. "It is like sitting on a dynamite pile that is giving off sparks...
...Which make it a perfect subject for an apocalyptic battle among the Justices of today's Supreme Court. Nothing revs them up like a symbolic fight over an intractable issue. Thursday's pile of opinions in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, striking down certain limits on corporate electioneering, found them arrayed in their now familiar 5-to-4 pattern and firing their big rhetorical guns. Depending on which very, very long opinion you prefer, they either struck a blow for the First Amendment or sold American politics into bondage to soulless corporations. (See 25 people who mattered...
...surprising that consumers can't accurately judge a teaspoon of medicine without the aid of the teaspoon itself, but the reason for the error tells us something about how our perceptions work - or fail to work. It's well established that smaller plates can help people pile on less food and taller glasses may make even skilled bartenders pour more alcohol. Similarly, 5 ml on a teaspoon pretty much covers the entire surface area of the spoon and thus looks like a lot to us. But the same 5 ml on a large spoon somehow appears to be less...
...very best people and the best technologies, in the same way you might put a car together by saying, Hey, let's takes the brakes of a Ferrari and the chassis of a BMW and the body of a Volvo. When you put it together, you just get a pile of junk that's very expensive and doesn't work very well. (See pictures of the Cleveland Clinic's approach to health care...