• Researchers in the field, such as Ernest Robinson, the head of the Aerospace Corporation's picosatellite project, dream of a day when swarms of nanosatellites (weighing less than 10kg) and picosatellites (weighing less than 1kg) might be used to establish a global navigation and communications network around Mars.

    ECONOMIST: Picosatellites

  • So the conference was an opportunity to see the design community here as more than a band (30-50 members, according to Dunbar), but less than a tribe (500-2, 500 members).

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  • The tinkering the prime minister was complaining about was the offer made last night to cut funds to the EU's poorer regions (so-called cohesion funds) a little less than originally proposed and cut subsidies to farmers (as ever the key concern of the French) a little less too.

    BBC: EU budget: Wanted - a Goldilocks recipe?

  • Jamie (Jeremy Strong), the protagonist of "The Great God Pan, " is a pleasant but emotionally inhibited young journalist whose glassy surface is shattered when he discovers more or less simultaneously that (A) he may have been molested as a child and (B) Paige (Sarah Goldberg), his longtime girlfriend, is pregnant.

    WSJ: Persons of Interest | The Great God Pan | Our Town | Theater Review by Terry Teachout

  • The Select Sector SPDR Energy ( XLE) is a less diversified ETF, as Exxon Mobil ( XOM) makes up over 19% of the ETF.

    FORBES: Putting Oil in Your Portfolio

  • Second, biologics are really difficult to copy, and thus even after the patents expire, knock-off biologics (biosimilars) are far less a threat than knock-off small molecules (generics).

    FORBES: Strategy: Why Big Pharmas Do What They Do -- And How Silicon Valley Might Help Them Think Differently

  • America, more than any other nation is more of an engineered society (based on principles, ideas, institutions and processes) and less of a culture (a shared response to the limits of geography and the tolerance of neighbors).

    FORBES: The One Thing No One Tells You About Doing Business in China

  • Knives permitted under the policy must be able to fold up and have blades that are 2.36 inches (60 millimeters) or less in length and are less than a half-inch (127 millimeters) wide.

    NPR: TSA Stands By Plan To Allow Small Knives On Planes

  • Your avatar has a race (human, elf, orc etc), a class (warrior, priest, wizard, etc), a more or less extensive inventory of all sorts of stuff (weapons, armor, potions, fishing rods, etc), a level and, in effect, a bank account.

    FORBES: How 38 Studios LLC Turned A CPA Into A Warrior

  • He further pointed out that some bond investors are viewing credit risk (the chances of a company defaulting on its debt) as less of a concern than interest rate risk (the chances of interest rates rising).

    FORBES: Are Bond Investors Taking On More Risk?

  • The option is then open to the customer (as it is in Europe) to contribute a little extra for a job well done, or a little less (as it is not in Europe) for a job poorly done.

    ECONOMIST: Mexican stand-off

  • This would require (a) BCS conference offices show a willingness to financially assist their less wealthy conference members and (b) the NCAA to offer greater financial assist to non-BCS schools who naturally lack the financial resources of their BCS colleagues.

    FORBES: FINAL EVALUATION

  • Thanks to his caring attitude and unrelenting tenacity (I think he badgered Interpol until they got sick of him) she was a free (though barely alive) woman in less than a year.

    BBC: Campaigning journalist Paul Foot has died aged 66.

  • Advertising award shows were a famous platform for him, but he also is remembered for delivering a rambling critique of another (less creative) Interpublic agency at a party meant to celebrate the anniversary of its merger with his old agency.

    FORBES: Creative Discomfort

  • In general, Indians chat for an average of 346 minutes a month, benefiting from extremely low rates of 0.5 rupee (less than half a cent) a minute.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Police found the empty plane on Monday around 1km (less than a mile) from the village.

    BBC: Drug smugglers kill indigenous people in Paraguay

  • Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) will get a lot less revenue from selling parts for the Apple (AAPL) iPhone 5 than it did for the current generation of the phone, according to Charter Equity analyst Edward Snyder.

    FORBES: Skyworks Off; To Get Lower Revs From iPhone 5 Than iPhone 4?

  • Volt drivers will still use charging stations, but it'll be a convenience (electricity costs less per mile) more than a necessity.

    CNN: The new fear: Electric car 'range anxiety'

  • After all, in the spring of 1997, when Microsoft announced the acquisition, WebTV Networks was a two-year-old stripling of a startup with an oversized marketing budget, an aging demographic (25% over the age of 50) and a scant number of subscribers (less than 100, 000).

    FORBES: WebCE

  • We tell you how to be a cut-rate Ted Turner by buying into a shared ranch ( Living Large on Less), how to trade off the cost of a house against the cost of private-school tuition ( Public Choice) and how to get more from your greens fees ( Golf A La Carte).

    FORBES: 2001 Investment Guide

  • If a nation is deemed less creditworthy, folks will (theoretically) demand a higher rate on rented money.

    FORBES: Downgrade Nation

  • Their investigation found that bundled gifts (a main gift and a stocking stuffer) were viewed as less generous than unaccompanied gifts (just the main gift).

    FORBES: Why Scrooges Are More Successful

  • We have never held that any exaction imposed for violation of the law is an exercise of Congress' taxing power even when the statute calls it a tax, much less when (as here) the statute repeatedly calls it a penalty.

    WSJ: ObamaCare and the Power to Tax

  • Meanwhile, less than a third (29%) think their IT department is good at managing mobile devices.

    FORBES: Dialing into Generation M(obile)

  • Coffee drinking was categorized based on daily consumption: less than a cup (or none), 1-2 cups, 3-4 cups, and more than 4 cups.

    FORBES: Have another cup of coffee - it's good for you!

  • Rachel Maddow had the decency to retract the same false claim on her blog, as did Bonnie Kavoussi (a little less snarkily) at The Huffington Post.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • For example, according to a new global survey by Mercer Investment Consulting, less than a quarter (23%) of 180 pension funds surveyed that invest in funds of hedge funds are satisfied with their investment returns, while 28% are dissatisfied.

    FORBES: Pensions Perilously Binging Upon Hedge Funds, Funds of Funds and Funds of Funds of Funds (March 20, 2007)

  • For months, the conference has been somnolent as other countries waited for a British election to return (they hoped) a government less in thrall to Eurosceptics.

    ECONOMIST: Ever closer union, 40 years on | The

  • Everyone agrees that if a law (any law) is put in place to stop piracy online, creative and crafty pirates will find a workaround (or a thousand workarounds) in less time than it takes to upload an HD version of Transformers II.

    FORBES: How the Internet Can Save Your Life

  • The 2012 National Study of Employers conducted by Families and Work Institute and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) painted a less bleak picture related to employers providing information about eldercare services (41% of employers said they did), and time off for employees to provide care without jeopardizing their jobs (75% of employers said they offered it).

    FORBES: The Eldercare Cliff. It's Coming. Are You Ready?

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