The President tries to pierce the bubble by reading ten letters a day from ordinary people.

NEWYORKER: State of the Union

"This work is, frankly, without peer, " says John Pierce, a vice president at DuPont.

FORBES: Revving Up Nature's Engines

"The bottleneck is still in the local and metro areas, " says Lisa Pierce, a vice president with research and consulting firm Forrester.

FORBES: Break Out The Bandwidth

That said there is a fine line between self-effacement and self-loathing, and unfortunately for Franklin Pierce, our 14th president, he stumbled over that line.

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Barbara was born in 1925 to Pauline and Marvin Pierce, who later became president of McCall Corporation.

WHITEHOUSE: Barbara Pierce Bush

Marc Pierce, the firm's president, says nearly all the products have included limited provider networks.

WSJ: Hospitals Forge New Deals With Insurers