DeCode (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ) said in its statement this morning that one form of the gene predisposed people to become fat, while another predisposed them to be thin.

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Of course, this is about the time that profits from manufacturing PCs started to collapse and margins become very thin indeed.

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The punishment is most severe for those very thin women who put on weight to become average weight.

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That is partly because the market has become so thin that they are hard to price, but also, presumably, because their true values are so frightening.

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Even if Amazon does become profitable, its margins are likely to be paper-thin.

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The emails and tasks will begin to pile up, and the more you stretch yourself thin, the lower the quality of your work will become, and the less you will produce.

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