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...Extra Shot? In a deal with Jim Beam Brands, Starbucks launched a branded coffee liqueur in U.S. restaurants, bars and retail stores...
...says??there's??no??such??thing??as??a??eureka??moment? Physicist David Grier sure had one. Grier and graduate student Eric Dufresne were trying to build a new kind of "optical trap"--a device that splits a laser beam and uses it to capture particles of a single substance. They knew that multiple traps, used in tandem, could let scientists play traffic cops on a molecular level, separating a substance into component parts--removing bacteria from blood, for example. For a year, Grier and Dufresne had been trying out fancy glass splitters, but nothing had done the trick...
Ideally, that should leave more time for Simon to do what he does best--rally the troops and plot strategy. "Irwin has an uncanny ability to get people to charge the mountain for him," says Beth Bronner, senior vice president of marketing at Jim Beam Brands and a longtime Hain Celestial board member. After an earnings disappointment last fall, Simon gathered about 150 employees at his Long Island, N.Y., headquarters for an inspirational screening of Miracle, the feel-good film about the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team's improbable gold-medal victory. Now he has to hope that Hain...
...require a huge amount of energy," says Hoffman, "not in the realm of what we're capable of these days." Scientists may never find a way to alter wind speeds, but Hoffman speculates that in 10 years, orbiting satellites that generate solar power in space may be used to beam down enough heat to change temperature. "But these things take time, money and effort," says Hoffman. Whether his theories will ever become reality is, well, up in the air. --By Sora Song
...yourself enthusiasts, the laser level, which uses a beam of light to tell you when something's exactly horizontal or vertical, is the season's hottest new gadget for the toolbox. These high-tech levels are useful for hanging pictures, putting up shelves or hanging wallpaper without having to mark up your walls with pencil lines, which are necessary with old-fashioned manual levels. But beware: some models stick to the wall with tape or pins that leave holes or marks that are just as annoying to cover up as pencil. Look for levels that mount with a suction...