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...consumer electronics remains Sony, a true innovator. To conquer the consumer market, Dell wants to solve the gadget-compatibility issue and speed the transition to the digital home. So Dell recently--and quietly--began offering basic home installation of computer networks for $119. The Dell.com site, which will be revamped on Oct. 10, even has a search engine to help homeowners locate providers of broadband service, another prerequisite for the coming digital transformation...
...made from scratch in Hispanic homes. There are dozens of varieties of aguas frescas, and before Nestle technicians could begin to select three or four to sell ready made, they knew they had to understand their audience better. Company representatives began touring tacquerias around Los Angeles, sampling everything from basic beans and slaw to more complicated carnitas and carnes asadas. More important, they made it a point to drink whatever beverages the customers were ordering...
...educational malpractice.” He further argues that the “fraudulent manufacturing of false antihistory” is “the kind of deception for which professors are rightly fired—not because their views are controversial but because they are violating the most basic canons of historical scholarship.” To paraphrase a colleague of Dershowitz, if the glove fits, we cannot acquit...
...most refreshing films of the year, American Splendor skillfully manipulates the medium of film in the same way last year’s Adaptation toyed with the basic structures of the screenplay. Splendor’s foundation is the life of chronically cantankerous graphic artist Harvey Pekar, whose series of autobiographic comic books in the ’70s and ’80s captured the innate complexities of a simple existence and ultimately revolutionized the comic book industry. These books had a number of different illustrators, and the varying styles are translated by directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert...
...Cheryl Knott is one of the most deeply committed young primatologists that I know, who is equally concerned with their conservation and the most basic aspects of their physiology and biology,” said David Pilbeam, curator of paleoanthropology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology...