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Cutting Cholesterol, an Uphill Battle

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Why Paper Is Eternal

[Hewing to rule 113 of provision 17(b) of Article XV of the Bloggers Collective Bargaining Agreement (2007), I have taken a few days off. This is known among surface dwellers as "vacation." Thus I am not here and this is not exactly what you'd call "happening." However I'm quite fortunate in that, while discussing my Outlook piece the other day with my friend Bill Powers (media critic of National Journal), he alerted me to a new paper he has written for Harvard's Shorenstein Center. He discusses at great length the future of paper. He's an optimist. I think you'll learn a lot from this thoughtful treatise. Send it to anyone you know who cares about the future of newspapers, magazines and books.]

Click here to read "Hamlet's Blackberry: Why Paper is Eternal" by William Powers.

Excerpt:

Though paper appears to be a relatively "dumb" medium, it too performs tasks that require special abilities. And many of paper's tricks, the useful purposes it serves, are similarly products of its long relationship with people. There are cognitive, cultural and social dimensions to the human-paper dynamic that come into play every time any kind of paper, from a tiny Post-it note to a groaning Sunday newspaper, is used to convey, retrieve or store information. Paper does these jobs in a way that pleases us, which is why, for centuries, we have liked having it around. It's also why we will never give it up as a medium, not completely. For some of the roles paper currently fulfills in our media lives, there is no better alternative currently available. And the most promising candidates are technologies that are striving to be more, not less, like paper. Indeed, the pertinent question may not be whether the old medium will survive, but whether the new ones will ever escape paper's enormous shadow.

Patent Defendants Score Big at Federal Circuit

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Class Action Suits Seeking Medical Monitoring Filed Over Recalled Mattel Toys

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D.C. Circuit: Grand Jury Witnesses Can Review Testimony

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Rights Cases Multiply Against Corporations

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Conflicting SEC Rule Proposals Will Add to Confusion Regarding Shareholder Participation in Director

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HP Scanjet 7650n Slows the Paper Chase

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DLA Piper Lawyer Helps Free Former Classmate From Chinese Prison

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5th Circuit Certifies Major Insurance Questions to Texas High Court

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Two Prominent Attorneys Subpoenaed in KPMG Case

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Animal Shelter Puts the Bite on Attorney for Allegedly Diverting Widow's Contributions

A Pittsburgh no-kill animal shelter has filed a five-count lawsuit against a Pittsburgh attorney, alleging that he illegally reduced its portion of a wealthy widow's multimillion-dollar estate. Animal Friends Inc. claims in the suit that Gregory Harbaugh abused his power-of-attorney status and diverted $1.2 million from four charitable organizations to three other charitable organizations with which he or his wife has financial ties.

Lead Paint Litigation Is Beginning to Fade

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Criminal Attorneys Provide Post-Game Analysis of Padilla Case

On Thursday, a federal jury in Miami found Jose Padilla and co-defendants Adham Hassoun and Kifah Jayyousi guilty on all counts of conspiring to support terrorism overseas. They face life in prison. Many of Miami's prominent criminal attorneys sat in on all or part of the trial to watch the lawyering, support their defense lawyer or prosecutor friends, or just out of sheer curiosity. What did they think of the legal strategies and judging? Here is the post-game analysis.