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James Dyson--inventor, self-promoter and Britain's most famous vacuum salesman--constantly seeks minor irritations. If the batteries in your hand vacuum go dead just when you need it, you plug it in to recharge and grab a broom, right? Not Dyson. If pet hair clogs the vac and ruins its suction, you open it and clear it out. Dyson embarks on a research project. To him, these issues aren't minor, and they're not irritations. They're business opportunities...
...most part we support the proposed general education system, its focus on relevance, its vision of broad courses, and its general structure. The omission of a course on markets, however, is glaring. We encourage the faculty to add “The Market and Society†to plug this hole in the preliminary report...
...appearance in the cage, relieved sophomore starter Kelly Knoche for the second half and both overtime periods.“As a goalie you always have to be mentally prepared to step in there and play,†said Connolly, who rejected six Bulldog shots and pulled the plug on a Yale surge to end regulation. “Whether you are going in with five minutes left in the game or you have a whole half to play, you just have to focus on playing your hardest and doing your job.â€On Saturday, Knoche...
...firm is taking its smell sense even closer to consumers and hoping to cash in on the $8.3 billion Americans already spend annually on air fresheners, candles and scented plug-ins. In August, ScentAir began offering a small home version of its smell machine for $30 a month. It comes with scent choices like eucalyptus mint, citrus musk and lavender with ylang-ylang, a derivative of a south Asian evergreen tree said to have aromatherapeutic benefits. "By comparison," says Van Epps, "plug-ins scream Grandma's bathroom aerosol...
...American as something that will change over time. After all, it has done so before. Sure, the argument goes, the Bush Administration has alienated Europe - over Iraq and Guantánamo and global warming, to name but three salient issues - but so did Dwight Eisenhower when he pulled the plug on the British-French-Israeli invasion of Suez, Lyndon Johnson with the Vietnam War, Ronald Reagan when he deployed Pershing and cruise missiles despite Continent-wide protests. So maybe if we just wait a while, the ship will right itself, buoyed up by a vast ocean of common experience...