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...James Carville every Sunday, talking about how St. Louis is going all the way this year. Like most Americans, I like my football ideology-free. Why spoil a good Sunday? Besides, from what I could see, he didn't know the game that well. Charles Jordan Carson City, Ariz...
...turning its efforts to consumer applications like wireless transactions, helping American Express launch ExpressPay, an alternative to cash for purchases where speed and convenience are important, such as at fast-food restaurants, gas stations and dry cleaners. In July Amex set up a real-world RFID test in Phoenix, Ariz., allowing card users and employees to charge at 200 merchants with an RFID-ready fob attached to a key chain. Amex vice president David Bonalle says RFID pilots have cut transaction time 30% to 50% and average sales have gone...
...outskirts of Flagstaff, Ariz., Wally Covington drives his pickup truck through a forest choked with nearly impenetrable thickets of ponderosa pines. At last he arrives at the spot where, 10 years ago, he and his colleagues took chain saws to hundreds of trees no bigger than telephone poles, carted off the trunks and branches, and then set fires to clear away the understory. Today the result of these Bunyanesque labors is a marvel to behold, a sun-dappled woodland arched over by the branches of 300-year-old trees and, in the spaces between them, a profusion of grasses...
Based in Scottsdale, Ariz., Cold Stone has 425-plus shops and is opening more than one a day in August and September. These days you're more likely to come across a Cold Stone than a Ben & Jerry's or a Haagen-Dazs. Although Baskin-Robbins remains the industry leader with 2,271 U.S. locations, Cold Stone grew five times as fast last year, according to Entrepreneur magazine. For the first half of this year, the closely held company says, it rang up sales of $71 million, a 56% jump over the same period last year...
...problem, this thing will continue. Think of the smoking epidemic. There is no doubt in anyone's mind that smoking negatively affects your health. And what has been done, on a national scale? Nothing. Because both problems are ONLY solved by individuals, not organizations. Gregory P. Freeman Phoenix, Ariz...