A PIECE in this week's print edition points out that American economic data have been surprisingly upbeat of late.
We take a look at Messi's milestone in Monday's editions, pointing out that while the mark deserves respect — it did stand for 40 years after all, through big changes in the game — Messi will probably never win over people in the Pelé and Maradona camps until he delivers on one more, even bigger, goal.
SIR — In your January 20 edition you pointed out that Mr. Obama's weakness is his lack of political experience.
Dobzhansky, in his book entitled "Genetics and the origin of species" (Third edition 1951), pointed out the existence of an apparent paradox from the studies on genetic variability in natural populations: The majority of genetic variants that are retained in heterozygous condition are mainly deleterious and then cannot be seen as useful elements for evolutionary processes.
In both course editions they pointed out an increase in their knowledge in all topics, and the majority of them felt that they ended with increased (very good or strong) ability in the course contents.
Johan Gunnarsson, a software engineer from Sweden, independently crunched the numbers to determine the 10 most popular Wikipedia entries for 35 language editions, as first pointed out by the blog AllThingsD.
In a recent 25th anniversary edition of "The Gift," Hyde pointed out the emergence of various Web projects with gift-economy structures, notably the open-source-software movement.
The Scottish medical historian Charles Creighton, writing in the ninth edition of Encyclopædia Britannica (1885), pointed out that "yellow fever, in time and place, has dogged the steps of the African slave trade".
In a leading article in its Scottish edition on Tuesday, "Tough task", it pointed out that "our economy is struggling even more amid the North Sea oil crisis".
"The idea of a standard edition," Phillips points out, is "implicitly sacralizing".
