First there was 911 and 9/11, used to signify not just the date, but everything that happened on it and afterward. There were terms like ground zero, evildoers, Al Qaeda and Taliban. Then there was post-Taliban and anti-Taliban and Sept. 10 "as an adjective meaning oblivious to danger or naïve," Professor Glowka said.

We're in the early stages of this. There are many things, like the Human Genome, and things in agriculture and all sorts of things that are going on, which need to be combined in the battle against strong intellectual property rights.

The Olympic tournament has spurred so much interest in Ogden, Utah's sixth-largest city, with 77,000 people, that curling has become a civic obsession. Kids play. Old folks play. Ogden now has its own curling club, and as part of the city's annual winter festival, residents play in a tournament, using frozen hams instead of rocks, which cost $600. The winning team keeps the ham.

a) Brady 'fumble' ruling
b) Pairs' figure skating decision
c) Poodle wins Best in Show

Joining a growing crowd of mobile youth tired of dealing with local phone companies that they say treat customers like children, New Yorker Brian Moss gave up on his old-fashioned "fixed-line" service provided by Verizon Communications...

Fixed lines still dominate the telephone business -- but competing new technologies are starting to show up on the radar of research firms. Already, Forrester Research estimates that "new communications options" have displaced telephone service at 1.7 percent of U.S. households.

Creative Commons will make available flexible, customizable intellectual-property licenses that artists, writers, programmers and others can obtain free of charge to legally define what constitutes acceptable uses of their work. The new forms of licenses will provide an alternative to traditional copyrights by establishing a useful middle ground between full copyright control and the unprotected public domain.

Since April of 2000, when Krispy Kreme went public, the stock has soared nearly 400 percent... But the stock has lately begun to weaken as sales growth from existing stores has slowed, meaning that future growth in the business will come largely from simply opening more and more new stores -- a gimmick that will eventually run out of steam.

So insiders have begun bailing out of the stock in droves -- a clear sign of problems in the business. Since last autumn, the company's insiders look to have been making nearly as much money by selling their own shares of Krispy Kreme stock as the company has been collecting in revenues by selling actual doughnuts. What's more, even franchisees have begun selling their operations back to the company, recalling the same sort of behavior that spread through the Boston Chicken chain as that business began to run into trouble.

With the company's margins being squeezed, the last thing any management wants to do is add yet more overhead to the operation. But what do you do if you're in the doughnut business and you've now got so many stores up and running that you've simply got to add more doughnut making capacity? Can you get yourself a doughnut factory for free -- or at least let us say, make the cost invisible for the time being?

The proposal to clarify the parent company identity comes two years after a successful effort to improve the image of the Philip Morris family of companies. Research indicates that the companies are viewed as changing for the better and becoming a more responsible corporate citizen, among other indicators of favorable public opinion...

The significance of the name, "Altria," Bible said, is derived from the Latin word "altus," which reflects the corporation's desire for its family of companies to always "reach higher" in striving to achieve greater financial strength and growth through operational excellence, consumer brand expertise and a growing understanding of corporate responsibility. [Ed note: "Wow."]

The history of the 20th century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The 21st will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power. The great challenge now facing countries throughout the world is how to find a proper balance between the efficiency and the amorality of the market. Over the past 20 years, the U.S. has swung too far in one direction... (p. 261)

Some lawmakers are weighing whether to revise provisions that could appear anti-consumer and poltically unseemly after a corporate collapse that hurt thousands of workers and investors. "Even some of the lobbyists who supported the bill tell me that they are afraid to touch it now," Senator Leahy said.

10:53 a.m. A man licking the pavement on Main Street in front of Subway was gone when police got there.

3: 29 a.m. A man pulled his car up to a gas pump at Cumberland Farms on Russelll Street and stayed in the car for 15 minutes without getting out. Police said that when they arrived on the scene, the man was still in the car listening to a motivational tape.

5:05 p.m. Police checked on a pedestrian walking in the middle of Pelham Road. The person said he was just crossing the street and was not causing problems.

5:57 p.m. A beastly looking dog walking on Triangle Street was gone when police got there.

8:17 a.m. and 8:18 a.m. Police checked on Valley View Drive and Chestnut Court residents participating in the "Are You OK" program. Both residents were fine.

Dawn Marie Ory, 20, 3408 Montesquieu St., was booked Sunday with criminal damage for allegedly scratching her ex-boyfriend's car and leaving a expletive-laced note on a Victoria's Secret gift certificate under his windshield wiper.

Joseph Augustine, 39, 907 Community St., was booked Sunday with disturbing the peace for playing a radio at full blast. Deputies had to wake up Augustine to arrest him.

Jonathan Hardigen, 28, 358 Plantation Drive, was booked with DWI and narcotics possession Tuesday after police found him in his car, in the middle of the intersection of Judge Perez Drive and Paris Road, passed out, with his foot on the brake and a lit marijuana cigarette in his mouth.

200 block of De La Ronde Drive. A car alarm was reported stolen from a car Dec. 29.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2001, our total number of accounts grew by 5.1 million, an average of 18,500 per day, at an average total marketing expense, including promotional bonuses, of $1.05 per new account...

We processed an average of 171,000 payments per day totaling $8.5 million in daily volume. For this period, the average payment amount sent equaled $50."

While millions of Americans watched the annual pro football championship, TiVo was monitoring the viewing habits of 10,000 of its 280,000 subscribers. The results are in from the digital video recorder set: Britney Spears beat the men on the field in the Super Bowl instant replay department.

Gordon Gould, the chairman of Upoc, a service that allows subscribers to exchange text and voice messages on a mobile phone or pager, said that Upoc would be especially useful at this Forum [the WEF] because subscribers can send messages to hundreds of people at a time about all the famous people. "At this Davos, it's all about celebrity-spotting," he said. "When someone sees a celebrity it affords them a bit of social currency, so they want to let other people know. Even here."

Is a technology of ecstasy worth the risks? We don't need ecstasy, of course. For that matter, we don't need plain old genitally driven orgasms either; humans can get along just fine and even reproduce without them. But we are, for unknown evolutionary reasons, wired for ecstatic experience--never mind that our current social arrangements do not encourage it.