Getting the family gaming message out with a song, Rebecca Mayes tackles the thorny problem of balancing technology in the home.

FORBES: Singer Defuses Gaming's "War in the Livingroom" With a Song

As cyber security moves from a purely technical issue to a major business concern, CIOs are faced with the thorny problem of how to best protect their company without over-spending on security.

FORBES: Figuring DDoS Attack Risks Into IT Security Budgets

While our US government, the President and Congress wrestle over the thorny problem of the debt ceiling, our enormous deficit and growing national debt, there is a very serious threat only getting modest attention cyber-threats.

FORBES: What Will You Do When Nothing Works?

If this latest wave of disappearances are a sign of tensions in the U.S.-Pak relationship, those tensions are likely to be over the thorny problem of negotiating with the Taliban, and who controls those talks, not over human rights and the rule of law.

FORBES: New Wave of Disappearances in Pakistan-a problem for Washington?

This is the sort of thorny problem that requires brains as well as money and the second reason why Mr Gates's donation is so interesting.

ECONOMIST: Philanthropy

If it's a thorny problem we are assured the Good Lord will resolve what man cannot.

BBC: Lancashire - When the Archbishop met Joe Wilson

He takes Liszt's advice and reads books at the same time as training his fingers to deal with an especially thorny technical problem.

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