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...history's ironies is that hypertext - an embedded Web link that refers you to another page or site - had been invented by Ted Nelson in the early 1960s with the goal of enabling micropayments for content. He wanted to make sure that the people who created good stuff got rewarded for it. In his vision, all links on a page would facilitate the accrual of small, automatic payments for whatever content was accessed. Instead, the Web got caught up in the ethos that information wants to be free. Others smarter than we were had avoided that trap. For example, when...
...average American who still bothers to read a newspaper is acutely aware that most signs point to a housing market which is still spiraling down, no matter what pending home sales numbers say. All of the "For Sale" signs in most neighborhoods and auctions of foreclosed properties are a sure indication that housing supply is still extremely bloated...
...functional guy, but in a much more intense way. You are at a really vulnerable, pained spot in life and he steps in to help you put your life back together. So he's talking to your divorce lawyer, helping you figure out the settlement, reading the documents, making sure you get to the doctor, helping you figure out the kids. Your kids are acting out and he's there disciplining the kids or talking about what he might do. Helping you because you're injured...
...sure, it is not for me to tell any woman that she needs to be open to romantic connections with men. So if you say, you know what? I'm 45, I've had my kids, and I'm done. Fine. Okay. Or, I'm 75 and I'm done. Great. But to the degree that that opting out is code for, this makes me too anxious, I'm too fat, I'm too old, I'm too tired, I don't like any of those men anyway, all the good ones are taken, all that negativity...to those women...
...advance on the edges of Gaza City, calling a cease-fire on Jan. 18, and Hamas' guerrillas - if indeed they were waiting in ambush - went unchallenged. Still, Israeli war strategists are at a loss to explain why Hamas failed to use the antiaircraft missiles that Israeli intelligence was sure that Iran had provided. "It's an enigma," one IDF officer says. "The air over Gaza was thick with drones, helicopters and F-16s, and Hamas didn't fire a single missile at them." Two possible explanations: either Israeli intelligence was wrong and Hamas simply didn't have the weapons...