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...year-old company dominates many small- and medium-size markets; it hopes to do the same in cities like Dayton, Ohio, and Detroit. Part coffee-and-doughnut joint, part sub shop, Tim's is confining its U.S. growth to the Northeast and Midwest, close to its base of operations in Ontario and with just enough stormy weather to keep management smiling. "It's no secret that coffee sales are better when it's cold and miserable," says Chris Laganos, who heads U.S. operations. "When I wake up and it's rainy out, I am a happy boy." --By Steven Frank...
...smart phones like Palm's Treo that run content-rich software from start-up Good Technology. "The BlackBerry is all work, no play," says ThinkEquity analyst Pablo Perez-Fernandez. "Do you really want to carry multiple devices if you can carry one?" Good, which has grown its subscriber base 50% over the past six months, lets customers access e-mail on a variety of operating systems and mobile devices; Cingular and Sprint have already signed on. Jittery investors have driven RIM's stock down 15% this year. Still, BlackBerry season isn't over. RIM is trying to maintain its dominance...
...high kids are just hormones running around in tennis shoes, "she says with a knowing look. Then there's the perennial friction from freshman "fishes" lording it over the lowly eighth-graders. "My flyer and me got into it again today," says Breanna, whose job is to provide the base for the acrobatics of a freshman cheerleader. Monica, a team captain, tries to bring everyone together, but she complains that it never works because of the evil ninth-graders. "If we're on the team next year as freshmen, we don't want to be mean to eighth-graders...
...every voter incensed by the apparent excesses of machine politics, there are probably more backers ready to rally around Daley. "I have never seen the city look better, run better," says Jay Schaller, whose family owns a bar in the working-class neighborhood of Bridgeport, a longtime Daley power base. "And if it takes a little patronage to get it done, so be it." That is a sentiment that Daley is banking on. "People used to say, 'You're the mayor's son--you don't have to do anything,'" Daley says. "I've worked very hard to be where...
...Stealth” starts out as plain ol’ bad, it is saved at the end, as it moves into the realm of amusingly horrendous. As Wade plummets to her possible death in the plane ejector’s seat, we hear her screams back at base over her still intact radio unit. A vivid, second-by-second narration follows with such gems as “My suit is on fire. It is on fire,” as well as “I’m hit. I’m hit” after...