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Dell Computer, based in Round Rock, Texas, near Austin, builds its servers around standard Intel chips and Windows software--a standard that smothers innovation, according to competitors of those companies. Michael Dell retorts that "what standards do is drive out inefficiencies. Dell is in the business of productivity, and that's a good business." He adds that "there's plenty of innovation within the standards." Even if his idea of a snazzy innovation is chopping a foot off the height of his servers so that they fit more easily through customers' doors...
...voice Bourdain uses in conversation and in writing--an odd mixture of macho vulgarity and effete vocabulary, a DMX-Jane Austin duet in one person--has made him both a success and a target for most serious food writers. It's a learned toughness: he's by nature a softie, a prep-school kid who went to Vassar to follow a girl he had crush on (whom he later married). But after two years he dropped out of college to work in a series of kitchens--including fish shacks where he chopped onions alongside ex-con fry cooks--before earning...
...breakup. "All are exploring solo opportunities," he insists. "We're giving the sound a break." So Michelle Williams (far right), 21, will have a gospel album; Kelly Rowland, also 21, has a single on this summer's Men in Black 2 soundtrack, and Beyonce will be in the new Austin Powers film. They'll still tour. As Rowland explained to a reporter, "You know how the Beatles broke off, they all did their solo projects, and then they came back together, and they were even stronger?" Psst. Kelly? They never did get back together...
...Afghanistan began nine weeks ago on a battlefield the size of Texas, and if all goes according to plan, it will end in a high, narrow valley smaller than the city of Austin. After weeks of playing Where's Osama?, military officials believe they have overheard bin Laden on handheld radio in the White Mountains, giving orders to his dwindling al-Qaeda forces, now estimated at just 300 to 1,000 men. If bin Laden is in Tora Bora, he and his soldiers are trapped in a box: snow-covered peaks loom on two sides, Afghan and American soldiers await...
...back on track offensively when guard Roland Williams hit a three-pointer with 12:23 remaining. Tri-captains Austin Ganly and Chris Brown carried the momentum, closing the gap to 57-48 with 9:05 remaining...