You deliver them to the church or school, where they will be boxed, dispatched to a depot, loaded into a container, trucked to a port, loaded onto a boat, shipped to Haiti, unloaded, sorted, and somehow distributed who knows how many weeks from now.

CNN: Learning lessons from past disasters

So how many weeks?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefings

Councils must provide figures, for example, on how many mothers are breastfeeding after 17 weeks and the total length of footpaths deemed easy to use.

ECONOMIST: Politics

Can you imagine how many times over the past five weeks Gore must have regretted not spending an extra hour or two in, say, the Dakotas, where the three electoral votes of either of those neglected states could have given him the 270 he needed to win?

CNN: latimes.com: Is this any way to pick a president?

And so it has been for the past three weeks - the argument among the parties about how many houses to build on the hard-pressed English southern countryside - real enough?

BBC: Measuring up to the giants of the past

Note how many of these otherwise dissimilar stocks have performed in the first few weeks of 2012.

FORBES: No Market For Defensive Stocks

Many precious metals traders are wondering how the election results will impact the metals in the coming weeks or months.

FORBES: P.M. Kitco Metals Roundup: Gold Sharply Higher on Heavy Short Covering, Bargain Hunting ahead of U.S. Election Results

Many will still choose 100-hour weeks humping deals at Goldman Sachs or figuring out how to market the next Google offering, but at least they will have thought long and hard about it.

FORBES: Magazine Article

It takes about eight weeks to unlock all the sensors, which include gauging how sociable someone is dependent on how many texts they send or calls they make, their movements, location and how much they are interacting with their mobile phones.

BBC: App taps phone and personal clues to your happiness