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...newest offering from the field of biometrics--the measurement and analysis of unique physical or behavioral characteristics--and it's accurate 98% of the time. "We've had more than 2 million deliveries without a leak," says John Heaven, CEO of Musicrypt, a Toronto-based digital-rights-management firm that arranges music distribution between record labels and radio stations or the press...
...hopes to launch next spring. The Swiss drug giant's 2005 income of $6.1 billion on sales of $32.2 billion set a record that CEO Daniel Vasella expects will be broken this year. He spoke with TIME's UNMESH KHER and BILL SAPORITO about vaccines, Democrats and why the firm is wading into China...
...does a company that boasts the ability to crack any system convince clients that it's safe to hire that firm? Stickley says the company's 50 employees have extensive background checks, supplied to clients if requested. Typically, employees are drawn from lines of work such as corporate security and computer engineering. But hackers need not apply. "We don't hire anyone who we believe was a former hacker," Stickley says. "Someone who can program and do network administration, you can teach them to hack. It's just too dangerous to put a hacker in a bank." Says Ferguson...
...suburban Farmington High in Michigan, the engineering-technology department functions like an engineering firm, with teachers as project managers, a Ford Motor Co. engineer as a consultant and students working in teams. The principles of calculus, physics, chemistry and engineering are taught through activities that fill the hallways with a cacophony of nailing, sawing and chattering. The result: the kids learn to apply academic principles to the real world, think strategically and solve problems...
Starbucks fancies itself a small company, which might ring a little odd, considering that the coffee giant is regularly parodied as being practically unavoidable. Well, the joke is only going to get funnier as the Seattle firm, with its shareholders clearly in mind, gets even bigger, selling more stuff, from hot food to hot music, in more places than ever before. Right now Big Green runs 12,440 locations worldwide, but the goal is 40,000, which would trump even McDonald...