• Working in his favor: Clicker is not seen as a threat the way a Google TV is but rather as an ally for the networks because it navigates rather than hosts the content.

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  • That it's just smarter politics to focus on the whole rather than the specific because you can get more things done.

    NPR: 12 min 17 sec

  • The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations by Lee Smith, is a unique and vital addition to the current debate on the Middle East because rather than interpret the Arabs through the ideological lenses of the West, Smith describes them, their cultural and political motivations as the Arabs -- in all their ethnic, religious, ideological, national and tribal variations -- themselves perceive these things.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel the strong horse

  • For another, the artificial fireballs seem to be glowing because of the excitation of the atoms within the vaporised material rather than because of oxidation.

    ECONOMIST: Ball lightning

  • He is special, the musicians explain, not merely because of his clarity of vision, authoritative analysis or the mysterious energy of his gestures, but rather because of the way he listens.

    ECONOMIST: Conjurors

  • This is not because the rich are gullible shoppers but rather, say the authors, because they tend to buy goods of better quality (such as organic milk), the prices of which are higher and tend to rise more quickly.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • Not for the nonsense they say about Israel but rather because of the sources they draw from and its significance in the context of the current political situation in Latin America.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Gaza Crisis and the Intellectual Left in Latin America

  • Lilly (nyse: LLY - news - people ) needs Xigris, and the revenue it could bring in, rather desperately because the company is struggling with the loss of its famed and lucrative antidepressant Prozac.

    FORBES: FDA Gives Conditional Approval To Lilly's Xigris

  • Is it possible that parent companies have stabilised and even increased local lending because of the ring fencing put in place by regulators during the crisis, rather than because of deliberate management choices?

    FORBES: Too Big To Fail Or Too Small To Maintain Stability?

  • The Simpson-Bowles commission exists, or existed rather, because the President of the United States created it.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Based on the reaction, it seems traders moved forward their expectations that the Fed would do something sooner rather than later because of the concern for contagion from Europe.

    FORBES: Bank of America's 3 Ways to Play 2012

  • Benen rightly argues that this is not because the Solyandra scandal is particularly unique or terrible, but rather because Republicans are really, really skillful at driving the news cycle.

    FORBES: Is the Media Fair and Balanced?

  • It fades after four goes not, I think, from any lack of enthusiasm for the candidate, more because the song itself is rather lame.

    BBC: Romney must work hard to win Ohio

  • Yet the report is relatively rare because, rather than dealing in the usual vague global generalisations, it concentrates on what might happen in a fairly small area.

    ECONOMIST: What happens if the Great Lakes get hotter

  • But she suspects this is in spite of raucousness in the Commons chamber rather than because of it.

    BBC: Do we really hate MPs getting rowdy?

  • This is not because government spending was falling, but rather because the private sector was growing even faster than the public sector.

    FORBES: Don't Blame Ireland's Mess on Low Corporate Tax Rates

  • States that have imposed community rating in the individual market have discovered that the total number of uninsured people rises rather than falls, because the number of older people who gain coverage due to premium reductions is more than offset by the number of younger people who drop their coverage due premiums hikes.

    FORBES: Should Your Kids Subsidize My Grandmother's Health Care?

  • But they argue that this is probably because they inadvertently consume fewer calories, rather than because of the mechanism suggested by Dr Atkins whereby the body switches from a carbohydrate-burning metabolism to a mainly fat-burning metabolism.

    ECONOMIST: Dieting

  • She said the study suggested that in people with degenerative brain diseases, memories were not erased from the brain, but rather could not be accessed because of the disease.

    BBC: NEWS | Health | Scientists 'reverse' memory loss

  • "Whilst Waste Watch believes encouraging people to recycle is a good thing, there is also evidence that suggests self-rewarding people for good behaviours may encourage people only to act in the future if rewarded, rather than acting because they care or value society and the environment, " he said.

    BBC: Bracknell Forest residents rewarded for recycling

  • "The deal is happening now rather than at launch because Spotify is going through the process of re-learning its business, " he said.

    BBC: Deal done for Spotify downloads

  • That many of the new jobs are formal (ie, legally registered) is despite, rather than because of, the labour laws.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil's labour laws

  • It relies on LTE cellular and sensors placed around the area rather than GPS to navigate, in part because the terrain and location of objects constantly changes in parking lots.

    FORBES: Nissan's Robot Car Finds Its Own Parking Spots

  • This is not because of any gold or uranium content but rather because of the copper content.

    FORBES: The Pakistani 1 Rupee Coin Is Worth More Than 1 Rs

  • Rather, because the resulting deficits imply future tax increases, and the private sector spends the money more productively overall than the public sector, it is a net drag on the economy.

    FORBES: Bill Clinton Fed His Flock Democratic Daydreams And Fairy Tales

  • In addition, they say the Russian deal collapsed mainly because of the financial turmoil in Russia rather than congressional and public pressure.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • But the jury also heard from an expert witness on honor murders -- a term CNN is using in the interest of clarity rather than the more common "honor killings" because the latter phrase does not properly describe the alleged crime.

    CNN: Family convicted in Canada 'honor murders'

  • This, they hope, will help to overcome fears that continuous production of bt (as happens in current versions of the technology) actually promotes insect infestation rather than deterring it, because it stimulates the evolution of resistance.

    ECONOMIST: Terminator genes

  • The Assembly could reach a consensus agreement, such as postponing the decision, rather than forcing a vote because, as Professor Heymann puts it, "nobody wants to see the World Health Organization lose power" if its rulings are ignored.

    BBC: Should the US and Russia destroy their smallpox stocks?

  • Prior to the EPA phase out the economics were not attractive enough to promote wide spread reclamation Despite the fact that it is illegal, many many contractors would and did vent the gas into the air rather then capture and reclaim it because in many cases they would have to pay to get rid of the dirty gas.

    FORBES: Money Managers Pick Six Green Stocks for 2013

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