Miscellaneous

Patrons from around the world have always been gearing together for benefits--it's the serendipity effect,

Patrons from around the world have always been gearing together for benefits--it's the serendipity effect,

Conservatively speaking, my understanding of the law is that if Google went to scan in a book without the author's read more

Conservatively speaking, my understanding of the law is that if Google went to scan in a book without the author's permission, then that would be a violation of copyright law. I think it would be great to be able to search text electronically, but you have to get the copyright permission.

On an ongoing basis, manufacturers are raising prices because they can. It enhances profitability, largely because there are few incremental read more

On an ongoing basis, manufacturers are raising prices because they can. It enhances profitability, largely because there are few incremental costs, and consumers' response to a higher price is relatively modest.

The ruling eliminates the risk of a large-scale financial verdict, should increase the market's visibility of Philip Morris' long-term U.S. read more

The ruling eliminates the risk of a large-scale financial verdict, should increase the market's visibility of Philip Morris' long-term U.S. tobacco market share and profit growth, and avoids press coverage of the industry airing its internal issues in public.

Tobacco operating fundamentals sequentially strengthened from the first to the second quarter, and third-quarter performance generally retained that stronger momentum. read more

Tobacco operating fundamentals sequentially strengthened from the first to the second quarter, and third-quarter performance generally retained that stronger momentum. Results are also particularly encouraging, in our view, given Kraft's continued weak and disappointing overall operating performance...[Philip Morris USA] is delivering an improved balance of market share and operating profit performance.

Sara Lee was an exceptional company with compounded earnings-per-share growth exceeding 12% a year for 25 years. But I think read more

Sara Lee was an exceptional company with compounded earnings-per-share growth exceeding 12% a year for 25 years. But I think the clock stopped for Sara Lee in 1995.

A lot of people age 25 to 30 don't have the capital or cash to afford fertility treatments, but that's read more

A lot of people age 25 to 30 don't have the capital or cash to afford fertility treatments, but that's the age when they have a much greater chance of success.

What is frequently lost in translation is that our pregnancy rates are anywhere from 40 to 60% higher than other read more

What is frequently lost in translation is that our pregnancy rates are anywhere from 40 to 60% higher than other areas of the world.

Clearly the barrier to the use of the drug off label has been raised,

Clearly the barrier to the use of the drug off label has been raised,

It will take a lot of officers' time to go out when a dog's squatting on someone else's property. They read more

It will take a lot of officers' time to go out when a dog's squatting on someone else's property. They have some ordinances they don't enforce now.