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...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 $299 for the iPhone and the money for the exorbitant calling plan that goes with it. They go anyway, like junkies to a dealer. (See 25 people to blame...
Hitting a Hornet's Nest Mexico's drug plague is a product of both its authoritarian past and its new democratic present. When it ruled Mexico as an elective dictatorship, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) accommodated but regulated the drug cartels. But after the PRI lost the presidency in 2000 and its quasi-control of the cartels broke down, those groups split into more vicious gangs like the Zetas, a band of former army commandos who now head the Gulf Cartel. Cities from Nuevo Laredo to Cancún were soon reeling from turf battles. The Juárez Cartel, once Mexico...
...Yahoo! will not craft a merger. It would give the newspaper a larger audience and potentially better advertising income. It would allow Yahoo! to step away from using the Associated Press, the wire service whose news stories go out to thousands of media outlets around the world, making its product dumbed down for readers...
...interest in all things environmental, as well as the success of 2005's Academy Award-winning March of the Penguins, Disneynature was created in 2008 to produce one to two nature films a year. The idea was not to pump out dry nature docs, but to re-invent the product once again and introduce it back into the theater. "We're not just bringing TV documentaries to the big screen," says Jean Francois Camilleri, the general manager of Disneynature. "We want to go with the movie screen and tell a story...
...Lithuania, Balcetis explains, “we have academic schools and basketball schools.†A product of the Sarunas Marciulionis Basketball Academy, named after the first Lithuanian player to go to the NBA, Balcetis also played for his country’s junior national team. Upon reaching high school age, however, he had not yet decided whether to focus on athletics or academics. So he moved to America...