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...time being, Armani is running things himself, but he still needs to find replacements for Brusone and Grossman, and some see that as a good opportunity. Says luxury-goods consultant Armando Branchini: "Giorgio Armani products have great potential, but they need new ideas and new management--a new approach to the market." Armani himself agrees. Sort of. "Armani does not have the big brand problems of Nike and Coke," says corporate spokesman Robert Triefus. "Mr. Armani doesn't feel the brand needs to be reborn. But it's going through an evolution. Absolutely...
...laws of physics suggest that this doubling cannot be sustained forever. Eventually transistors will become so tiny that their silicon components will approach the size of molecules. At these incredibly tiny distances, the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics take over, permitting electrons to jump from one place to another without passing through the space between. Like water from a leaky fire hose, electrons will spurt across atom-size wires and insulators, causing fatal short circuits...
...COMPUTER One of the most ingenious ideas being pursued is to compute using DNA, treating the double-stranded molecule as a kind of biological computer tape (except that instead of encoding 0s and 1s in binary, it uses the four nucleic acids, represented by A, T, C, G). This approach holds much promise for crunching big numbers. Hence large banks and institutions may one day use it. However, a DNA computer is an unwieldy contraption, consisting of a jungle of tubes of organic liquid, and is unlikely to replace a laptop in the near future...
...European economy may be a bit sluggish, but just how productive, really, is the U.S. approach? "Half of all Americans report some kind of stress, and 63% say they'd rather have more time off than more money," says Robinson. "We have no identity outside of work, and there's this new glorification of the tech guy who works 18 hours a day. The issue is: How does a corporation reward the people responsible for this economic boom? It's all going to the CEOs through stock options and executive-vacation packages...
Every state likes to trot out its welfare-to-work successes, but Minnesota has more than most. Last week a comprehensive evaluation of the state's unique approach to welfare reform--an initiative that requires recipients to work but initially subsidizes them--showed impressive results. Since the state's reform went into effect in 1994, employment among welfare recipients swelled 35%, and other measures of well-being--from marriage rates to school success--also improved...