For decades, chemicals that make life easier — your eggs slide out of the frying pan ... the company that invented the widely used chemical coating Teflon. But this better living has come ...

All of the complexity of the Afghan conflict -- and all of the bureaucracy NATO used to manage the counterinsurgency effort -- was summed up by a single spaghetti monster of a PowerPoint slide.

McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer ... I work kind of late (sadly enough, making PPT slides).” ...