When USADA brought its charges against Mr. Armstrong in June, it cited these long-term results as one of the pieces of evidence upon which it based its conclusions.

WSJ: Antidoping Officials Pursued Armstrong for Years

There is some evidence that share prices undershoot fair value in the short term (as investors are slow to react to individual pieces of good or bad news) but over-react in the medium term (extrapolating present trends, like Buzz Lightyear, to infinity and beyond).

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

Dr Ericsson believes that prodigies get such impressive mileage out of their working memories by placing important pieces of information into their long-term memories in a way that makes them accessible to working-memory processes.

ECONOMIST: Who wants to be a genius?

While investor eyes were keyed in on that event, two other pieces of news emerged that also have long term ramifications for Facebook and its shareholders.

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A. Loring, today's volunteers and scientists can view pieces of ornithological history and identify long-term trends while working toward solutions that could help ensure the birds' survival.

CNN: Ninety years of birdwatchers' notes going online

There's always a possibility when a company is bought or merges or goes bankrupt and someone else picks up the pieces that there will be a short-term disruption as systems are intertwined.

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After Harold Washington died suddenly, in his second term, his achievement, such as it was, fell to pieces almost at once.

NEWYORKER: The Conciliator

But if New York goes down fast, the predictable worries will all return: the long-term plan, the coaching future, the continued search for magic missing pieces.

WSJ: The Team the Knicks Were Supposed to Be

As we continue to think greener and smarter, we'll see new possibilities, like the long-term power-generating potential of an intact Appalachian mountaintop with wind turbines vs. chopping it to pieces for a few years' worth of burnable coal and centuries of environmental devastation.

CNN: Commentary: Green way to create jobs, save cities