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...system's 33,000 post offices have morphed from bank-vault blandness into boutiques that sell such items as hats, neckties and Bugs Bunny trinkets while still providing a full line of postal services. The truly postally obsessed can choose a Pony Express sweatshirt or infant gear emblazoned with the words JUST DELIVERED. And customers are buying. "When a store replaces a post office, there is more than a 10% increase in revenues," says Nancy Wood, a postal-marketing specialist...
...great runner, one of the best. As you assess the new track, you don't see a possible defeat but instead another victory. Many of you have trained for this race your whole lives with personalized coaching and custom gear. Others have just stumbled across this place on your way to some other place. All of you are ready...
...turn the steering wheel and work other controls. The "driver" sits up to a mile or so away in front of a panel with one or two joysticks or a steering wheel and a small TV screen, manipulating the vehicle like someone playing a video game. Light vehicles carry gear that pinpoints the location of the mines for later destruction. Alternatively, tanks push heavy rollers or a metal contraption called a flail that can destroy mines directly. If a big mine blows up the vehicle instead...well, no human is hurt...
...little as $3,000 to $5,000, you can turn that spare room into a fully wired nerve center with top-drawer gear rivaling any at corporate HQ. Sound promising? Sure. But before you start ticking off those tax deductions, there are a couple of things to consider: What kind of work do you intend to do? How much space can you spare? Aside from your souped-up PC, you'll need an array of space-hogging peripherals like a printer and a scanner. Fortunately, companies like Brother, Canon and Xerox recently unveiled a new and improved class of multifunction...
...wide-screen, 25-to-65-in. TV, an audio-video receiver, a front and rear set of speakers, hi-fi VCR and a LaserDisc or DVD player. Less than a decade ago, entertainment mavens had to shell out tens, even hundreds, of thousands of dollars for that kind of gear. Now newcomers can find complete, easy-to-install packages for $2,000 to $3,000--a price range that has helped the industry generate a record $9 billion in revenues...