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Telepathy, precognition, anything that involves the mind. Typically they will think that humans have this untapped potential for connecting with each other over large distances, which would violate the current laws of physics as we currently understand them. Of course, they always respond with, "Well, the current laws of physics are always changing, so how can you be so certain that these things aren't real?" Well, we can't prove these things don't exist, but then they never really lay themselves open for scientific investigation. That's why it's really problematic to talk about them as being...
...companies remain dismissive about the financial downturn-and unprepared to seize the opportunities it presents: "Companies are still underestimating the size and scope of the economic crisis. They are generally too optimistic about their own performance and believe that they have taken sufficient steps to respond to the crisis. They often tend to be too inward-looking in their forecasts, relying on their own 2008 experience rather than fully assessing the changing external environment: managers do not like to create or accept negative plans. Consequently, although taking action, companies have not adopted the steps either to protect themselves from...
...spending tens of thousands of dollars every month on four big p.r. firms? Spokesman Nick Ashooh said his in-house communications team needs additional mouthpieces to respond to the "tsunami" of bad news from its collapse last September, including a lavish executive junket and hefty bonuses covered by the $180 billion taxpayer transfusion. (Read "The Bailout Bomb...
...expressed an unusual willingness to talk with the U.S. about improving Washington-Havana relations. The two aging communists even met with a delegation of U.S. Congressmen this week and asked what they could do toward that end. One possible answer: if the U.S. does lock up Posada, Cuba could respond in turn by freeing some of the scores of dissidents languishing in its own prisons...
Council leadership received the finalized January decision by e-mail less than an hour before the student body did, giving the UC essentially no time to respond, according to a Council member who requested that their name not be used to preserve their relationships on and off the Council...