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...explaining some increasingly controversial part of Apple's business or his personal life. He wrote notes explaining Apple's environmental policies, revealing their plans for a native SDK for the iPhone and addressing the concerns about his health. Each note led, directly or indirectly, to a major, and positive, shift in the public perception of the issue in question. Maybe it's time for another letter...
...Marks, the key shift introduced by the HPI is its "move away from measuring production and toward measuring consumption. The HPI serves as a signpost pointing more toward a society we want to live in - the delivery of good lives rather than the delivery of more goods...
...believe all these years later. In 1994, after the Green Bay Packers cut him - he was the fourth-string quarterback, stuck behind the legendary Ty Detmer - Warner returned to his hometown of Cedar Falls, where the only thing he was throwing was gummy bears. While working the night shift for $5.50 an hour at the local Hy-Vee supermarket, he and his bored co-workers would chuck the gooey candies at each other to pass the time...
...know who won until U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker calls the lawyers back to hear closing arguments and issues his ruling. That is likely to take several weeks. But it's already clear that the verdict itself will be only a beginning, as all sides shift their focus from testimony to the real task of convincing federal appellate judges, and ultimately the U.S. Supreme Court, to rule their...
This is a radical shift in the fast-food world, where change is usually very slow to come. Fast-food hamburgers by and large are the same tasteless gray pucks now as they were during the Ford Administration; they just have better commercials and more toppings. Hot dogs are still exactly the same as they were during the Korean War. Nor has gnarly, underseasoned and overcrusted fried chicken improved much. But pizza is growing and breathing; it seems to have a special place in America. Maybe it's because pizza's the most domesticated of all our dishes, meant...