Ever since its debut as America's tourist icon, Niagara has built a reputation that depends on separating its naturalwonder from the artificial accretions around it.
But with Siri, which Apple acquired only a little over a year ago and quickly integrated into its mobile operating system iOS, Apple has done what it has done many times before: By nailing the user experience, Apple once has again taken a technology that already existed and made it feel so natural that you wonder how you ever did things any other way.
The hedge fund world was abuzz last week with news that its star natural gas trader John Arnold was retiring at age 38, causing some to wonder if there was more to the story and if something went wrong in the past few months.
The power source is a very real one — natural gas — but opposition to natural gas production by the Sierra Club and other environmental activist groups makes one wonder whether they truly believe their global warming and air pollutions claims, or whether they are simply anti-energy and anti-business.