Most of us gauge our health by one or two measures: how we feel on a daily basis, or whether or not our doctor gives a thumbs-up at the annual checkup.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The balance between retail sales and wholesale inventories is critical because it allows us to gauge whether consumer activity is sufficient to spur future inventory orders.

FORBES: Global Economic Update: A Weak Recovery

The scale of human trafficking in the US is hard to gauge, but the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline, operated by Polaris Project since December 2007, has received more than 57, 000 calls from every state in the union.

BBC: Twelve arrested in US raid on Latin sex-trafficking ring

We also got an eyeful of the new " Super HD" 1080p streaming, and although network issues kept us from getting a true gauge of the quality, we did confirm that the new max bitrates are well above the old " X-High" standards.

ENGADGET

We need to look at Hong Kong to gauge whether China is evolving into the more open and tolerant power that China's leadership would like us to believe is unfolding.

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