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Based on everything that's known so far, it seems Cheney is in pretty good shape for someone who has had four heart attacks; there is no reason to think he wouldn't be able to serve one or even two terms. Over the long haul, says Dr. Christopher Cannon of the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, the goal should be to prevent future episodes through more aggressive lowering of cholesterol and treatment with more anticlotting agents. But it's hard to know how much more Cheney's doctors can do, since basic questions about his treatment have...
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...challenge was not just breaking into the owner's circle, however. It was also hard to convince investors that the urban minority market he was targeting was viable--that blacks and Latinos ages 18 to 34 are a potentially profitable online demographic. Even before the tech market tanked last March, it was rough going for most black dotcoms. In the general spring housecleaning, they were likely to be the first to get knocked off. "A lot have already gone out of business," says Lary Tuckett, director of ethnic marketing for Luminant Worldwide, a Dallas-based Internet-services provider. "Or they...
Sometimes innovators don't even recognize the true import of their findings. In 1660s Germany, Magdeburg Mayor Otto von Guericke tries to solve the riddle of a compass needle that doesn't always point (as people thought it should) at the Pole Star. He rubs a model of the earth made of sulfur in order to attract his experimental compass needle. The rubbing produces a noise and a spark (which Guericke mentions in a casual footnote) that turns out to have been electricity...
...natural phenomenon that already exists. It is not merely a product of convergence, technology's latest buzz word used to describe the combining of existing technologies. Yet as our first two choices illustrate, the art of making two or more technologies work together often requires a new invention--even if it is just a complex line of computer code...