If an attack were easy, Israel would have gone in alone long ago, when the Iranian programme was more vulnerable.

ECONOMIST: Nuclear proliferation

Indeed, the memory in an Apple iPod alone, not long ago worth millions, is today worth a microscopic fraction of what it once was.

FORBES: Scott Sumner, Gold, the Dollar, and Anti-intellectualism

Many would be surprised to learn that, not long ago, only rich kids went to high school, let alone college.

FORBES: Magazine Article

There's an in-depth retrospective of the technology at the source link, looking back to Samsung's exit that left Mitsubishi alone in the segment three years ago, long after others like Sony and Hitachi fled for thinner-framed climates.

ENGADGET: Mitsubishi is ending rear-projection TVs, ceases production of DLP and laser models

It is not elections alone that make a free society -- and a free society is what Venezuela long ago ceased to be.

CNN: Chavez clown prince of a decaying society

Eastwood long ago gave up celebrating men of violence: the mysterious, annihilating Westerners and the vigilantes who think that they alone know how to mete out justice.

NEWYORKER: The Man in Charge