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...year image maven faces a much more serious threat on the digital horizon. As prices for digital cameras continue to fall, consumers will abandon film in greater numbers. That means Kodak's high-margin film franchise, which brings in about a third of the company's profits, will bear the brunt of the switch. So even though Kodak has lost some market share over the past few years in a brutal price war launched by Japanese rival Fuji, it still captures a commanding 65% of a sunset business. "I don't see how Kodak can be as profitable, or have...
What sort of government-sponsored program could bear such a name? Carnivore is a program run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that permits access to the electronic communications of every customer of an Internet Service Provider (ISP) in which a black box has been installed. More alarmingly, it also permits access to the e-mail of each person who communicates with them...
...theory of relativity better than their options. A shocking 11% said they had allowed vested, in-the-money options (those with immediate cash value) to expire and become worthless. The knowledge void has brought employee lawsuits, even bankruptcies by those who grossly mismanaged their windfall, losing all in the bear market...
...jitters, shyness around strangers, fear of dogs or Ferris wheels. But severe social anxieties, which afflict 5% to 10% of children, are something else. These kids have anxieties that far exceed normal bounds. Fear overtakes them; they can't sleep alone, can't separate from their parents, can't bear to go to school, can't make or keep friends...
...legal system. De Soto estimates the value of their extralegal property at $9.3 trillion--about as large as the annual GDP of the U.S. economy. More than two-thirds of Latin America's construction is never legally registered--a big reason, De Soto found, why cement sales in Brazil bear little relation to official building figures. "We show a President the extralegal map, and it knocks his socks off. He realizes he doesn't govern the majority of his country...