It was a big wall coming at us. It just rumbled, and the shingles started flying. That roar sounded like read more

It was a big wall coming at us. It just rumbled, and the shingles started flying. That roar sounded like it was fixing to come in the back door.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Appearances often are deceiving.

If the court didn't think this (Texas) was materially different from the Pennsylvania case, they wouldn't have taken it up.

If the court didn't think this (Texas) was materially different from the Pennsylvania case, they wouldn't have taken it up.

These guys are not young anymore. They have eight games under their and it will be interesting to see how read more

These guys are not young anymore. They have eight games under their and it will be interesting to see how we respond in a big game at this point in the season.

Because of the extensibility of the Scala InfoChannel® platform we were able to integrate database information and the Vista software read more

Because of the extensibility of the Scala InfoChannel® platform we were able to integrate database information and the Vista software system into a custom cinema experience unique in New Zealand.

With corporate balance sheets and cash flow strong, we look for investment spending to remain strong, pushing up growth in read more

With corporate balance sheets and cash flow strong, we look for investment spending to remain strong, pushing up growth in the capital stock and adding to labor productivity growth in 2006.

[Defense and government networks are hardening their security, but for regular users, the best strategy against high-tech crime can be read more

[Defense and government networks are hardening their security, but for regular users, the best strategy against high-tech crime can be simple.] Our best defenses against these kind of attacks are often of a low tech variety -- that is, keep paper records of your transactions, ... Even though much of what we have exists only as a series of ones and zeroes somewhere in the information sphere, we do get paper copies and we should hang on to those. The movie 'The Net,' I think, makes a very intriguing point, about this very computer literate protagonist who has few human connections, and this is precisely the reason she's vulnerable to the kind of attack she suffers. It seems to me that if we keep that in mind we'll be well served.

[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in read more

[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in Louisiana.] It may look from the outside as if they are stealing or breaking the law, ... when in fact some of them are trying to survive.

In some years, we see the boating season just being delayed, and they might be able to make it up read more

In some years, we see the boating season just being delayed, and they might be able to make it up later in the year. Based on the tone of the last earnings call, I?m not expecting to see a spike for them in the third quarter. The next big question is: What is 2006 going to look like in terms of how the boating season shapes up and how successful will these new initiatives be that the management is waiting on?