This joke, beyond being a shameless pitch for the paternity testing industry, squares nicely with common notions of who really merits the designation "the weaker sex," and who is stolid in the face of pain and illness, and who greets the slightest sore throat or strained muscle with all the heigh-ho fortitude of an old Leonard Cohen album.
LOS ANGELES — Look for changes in the proposed antipiracy legislation that has giants in the entertainment and technology industries squared off against each other, but nothing extensive enough to please all of the legislation's opponents.
Initial residents at MassRobotics "alpha" space include agriculture-focused American Robotics, urban mobility startup Hurdler Motors, the Air Force Research Lab HMSS and the makers of robots used for inspections in the oil and gas industry, Square Robots.
You might remember the documentary we made about Aamjiwnaang and their proximity to 40percentt of Canada's petrochemical industry—a square 15.5-mile cluster known as the Chemical Valley that's so toxic it drove the World Health Organization to give Sarnia the title of worst air in all of Canada two years ago.
Now the industry is squaring off against a surprising new opponent: musicians.
The Herfindahl-Hirschmann Index, which measures the degree of concentration in an industry by squaring the market shares of firms in the industry and adding up the total, is nowadays dismissed as irrelevant, except as a preliminary screening device.
After the collapse of the dot-com industry, about 350,000 square feet of call-center space emptied out, but about a third of it has since been filled, Mr. Martin said.
"We have a whole equestrian industry, more horses per square mile than Kentucky," he said.
The Journey may lead the industry in cubbies per square inch.
Here was the world's most secretive banking industry, centered on a square in the center of Zurich called Paradeplatz.
