The industry really wants you to get Windows 8 via an all-new PC, and most people who adopt it will go that route.

WSJ: A Review of Windows 8 Upgrade: Not for Old-at-Heart PCs

He is too good a historian to go to the opposite extreme and adopt the French vice of imposing consistent themes on inconsistent times and places, or looking for rhetorical effect in implausible analogies.

ECONOMIST: Medieval history

The big unresolved question for the new donors, argues Duncan Green, head of research at Oxfam, an NGO, is how far they adopt the policies and institutions of Western donors or how far they go their own way, blurring boundaries between aid and investment.

ECONOMIST: Big developing countries are shaking up the world of aid

They go fast into new markets and are ready to adopt and adapt new products.

FORBES: Why Emerging Markets Are More Innovative Than America

Leaders who adopt social strategies to grow their businesses value customer relationships enough to go beyond monitoring and listening.

FORBES: Social Business: You're Doing It All Wrong

Bostock and the rest of the board call the offer insufficient and adopt a poison pill-type HR plan to make it virtually impossible for Microsoft to go through with the deal in a hostile manner.

FORBES: So Long Roy Bostock. Don't Let the Door Hit You On the Way Out.

"You are relegating adopted parents to go to the back of the bus and wait in line if they want to adopt" a native American child, she said.

CNN: Supreme Court tackles Native American adoption dispute