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Microsoft has been very effective at playing catch-up in new markets created by innovators and then using whatever tactics necessary (legal or not) to eliminate competition. Gates likes to paint himself as a techno-genius, but he's actually just the bully who got fat eating the real geniuses' lunches. CHRIS ELLENS Nepean, Ont. Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door--including the trustbusters. D. JEAN HAYES Northampton, Mass...
...buildings at Los Alamos, birthplace of the atom bomb. The fires never came close to a building that holds drums of transuranic mixed waste and a metric ton of plutonium. No disastrous explosions occurred, but the air will be monitored for radioactivity. Meanwhile, noxious fumes wafted from the lead paint, rubber and plastics in burning cars and buildings. Some 20,000 people were evacuated from Los Alamos and surrounding towns. The damage estimates at week's end ranged from hundreds of millions to billions of dollars, with $3 million spent on fire fighting. "It is a human disaster," Energy Secretary...
...been caricatured as an intellectual lightweight, there's a special imperative to provide detail. It's seen as proof of gravitas. But specificity kills. Just ask Bill Bradley. He was running strong until he laid out a detailed health plan. Gore cherry-picked details and used them to paint the former Senator as both a spendthrift crazy and a Medicaid-destroying ogre...
...light hits our retina at its blind spot (where there aren't any photoreceptors), our brain fills that part of our visual field by extrapolation. We usually don't even notice. Literature can do the same thing. Non-fiction is constrained by facts. Facts are easily manipulated and never paint a full picture of a person or an event. There are too many blind spots, too many hidden motives. Fiction, by contrast, can fill in the gaps between the facts. It necessarily presents an impression, an over-arching framework that selects certain facts and disregards others. If it's fictional...
After the 1998 season, DePodesta was named Special Assistant to Cleveland GM John Hart, but he was on the move again before the paint on his nameplate could dry. In November of that same year, Hart called DePodesta into his office and told him the A's had called to ask permission to interview him for the Assistant GM position...