James Joyce wrote Ulysses, his most popular and critically acclaimed work, during his battle against glaucoma. The year was 1922, and Joyce received the cutting-edge treatment of the time: leeching. Alas, the little bloodsuckers failed to cure his condition. So his doctors decided to go the surgical route, which, in the early part of the [...]

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Marines from Headquarters Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 27, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, tested multiple events from the Marine Corps’ new Combat Fitness Test, Jan. 11, at the CLR-27 Regimental Physical Training field here.
The Marines tested three events scheduled to be implemented into the CFT during summer 2008. [...]

As we’ve previously reported, the falling price of LCD TV’s in 2007 has driven a number of companies to form strategic alliances or partnerships with each other. Now Sony appears to be the latest company adopting the trend in an effort to cut costs and streamline production.

Those MP3 and AAC files that you’ve ripped from your CD collection are still “unauthorized copies” in the eyes of the recording industry. In a brief filed late last week, the RIAA said that the MP3 files on a PC owned by a file-sharing defendant who had admitted to ripping them himself were “unauthorized copies.”
Atlantic [...]

Differences of opinion are normal and healthy in adult relationships and learning to compromise is a skill required in many areas of life. You might want to print out this page and pin it to your notice board to remind you both whenever a disagreement arises.