That, at least, is the latest lesson learnt by Meg Whitman, the wealthy former eBay chief.
But what is most intriguing is the latest lesson from Lebanon -- the one being taught by Hezbollah.
But after Rodriguez fielded a bullet that deflected off Kevin Brown and caromed to him last Tuesday, Luis Sojo offered him the latest lesson in Playing Third Base 101.
That is the latest lesson from the investigation by Robert M. Morgenthau, the district attorney in Manhattan, into the fraud conducted by Meyers Pollock & Robbins, a brokerage firm in New York that bilked more than 16,000 investors out of $176 million.
An unfounded report on a little-known blog claiming that Gov. Nikki R. Haley was about to be indicted rocketed from South Carolina political circles into national circulation, along the way becoming the latest lesson in the perils of an instantaneous news culture.
But with personal computers delivering the latest lesson plans directly to a person's home or office, the need to physically attend a nearby evening course after a hectic day at work is becoming distinctly less attractive.
The latest lesson in ignored context erupts from Isla Vista ("Island View"), a gridded set of neighborhoods boxed in by straight roads aligned due west of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Comments from Rupert Read offered a link to the "Late lessons from early warnings" report (recommended for environment/science policy nerds) and Nassim Taleb's interest in the issue.
This article relates the "late lessons" from these early warnings to the current debates on the application of the precautionary principle to the hazards posed by endocrine-disrupting substances (EDSs).
The working EEA definition used in the "Late Lessons" report (EEA 2001) has therefore been improved in light of subsequent discussions and legal developments, and it is provided below in the hope that it will facilitate constructive debate on its interpretation and application.
