1 Hourglass: Torso and hips are approximately the same width - with waist definition.  Apple: Torso and upper body wider than your hips - with little or no waist definition. You might have weight surrounding your waist.
From a legal point of view, a merger is a legal consolidation of two entities into one entity, whereas an acquisition occurs when one entity takes ownership of another entity's stock, equity interests or assets.
Chapter 2. Understanding Understanding. The most characteristic thing about mental life, over and beyond the fact that one apprehends the events of the world around one, is that one constantly goes beyond the information given. Education. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.