Word: deliverence
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Let's say you own the largest share of a company that dominates British pay television; your subscription base has nearly doubled over the past four years; and you've just announced stellar earnings. How do you treat your chief executive: a) Extend his contract or b) show him the...
Wells worked for much of the last dozen years of his life as a pizza-delivery man in and around Erie, a blue-collar town of 100,000 midway between Cleveland, Ohio, and Buffalo, N.Y. One of seven children, Wells was a high school dropout. He was a withdrawn but...
Wells lived alone in a small rented white A-frame house, where he did little but tend to his cats, watch rented movies and, in the winter, help his neighbors shovel snow. His take-home pay was usually only a few hundred dollars a week, but the week he died...
That kind of diligence may be a clue to what transpired on his final day. At Mama Mia's, Wells received a call around 2 p.m. for two sausage pies to be delivered to an address about two miles away. The delivery address turned out to be on a pitted...
Smart Dust These computerized motes are still a bit bigger than dust--about the size of a matchbox--but the concept holds: scatter a bunch of these radio-equipped wireless sensors across a battlefield, and they could track troop movements; embed them in a road, and they could deliver a...