Suddenly Wi-Fi wireless networking, which is beginning to act like The Great Enabler, gives us a glimpse of how it might happen.

FORBES: Hub Dreams

They told us about new apps like Newsstand which will act as a portal for papers and magazines, or Cards which lets you send cards - through the mail.

BBC: Tim Cook's dull debut

But so far, short term remedies like the American Recovery Act have not been able to keep the US economy hiring, and growing.

FORBES: Commodities to Soften as Global Economy Weakens

Like Obama, the neoconservatives are not motivated to act by concern for the US's core regional interests.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: America's descent into strategic dementia

She writes her dinner invitations without mistakes and spends her time bombarding us with literary references, ("Colombe, stop trying to act like Madame Guermantes, " or "Pumpkin, you are a regular Sanseverina, ").

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Elegance Of The Hedgehog'

US-based researchers were the first to propose that the wrinkles might act like the tread on tyres, and even demonstrated how the patterns in the skin resembled those of run-off channels seen on the sides of hills.

BBC: Science puts wrinkled fingers to the test

With near-field-communication(NFC) becoming more common in the US, which allows phones to act as credit cards, among other uses, companies like Kaspersky Lab have their work cut out for them.

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Not only are they God's creatures, like the rest of us, but since 1981 they have been protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.

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