Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The iPhone 5 Scores Well, With a Quibble
First, design. A single company, known for its obsession over details, produces both the hardware and the software. The result is a single, coherently designed whole.
A comedown for America's defense lobby
Reuters To grasp how much the budget wars have altered the natural order of things in Washington, consider this: One of the most powerful lobbies in town, the defense industry, is feeling a bit powerless.
It is trying to head off automatic across-the-board cuts in the Pentagon budget of $54 billion next year alone, produced by a 2011 bipartisan budget deal. But it has made little apparent progress in blocking or tempering the so-called "sequestration" of funds set for January.
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