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...terms in office as a legislator and the mayor of Taipei?his approach remained basically the same: to out-prepare, out-study, out-argue and out-campaign his rival, whether that was opposing counsel or a KMT politician. His method was bluntly effective and essentially unchanged from his academic blueprint: work harder, better and longer and eventually you will persevere. "He's a workaholic. He just doesn't stop studying," says Hu Chung-hsin, a former adviser. Hu thinks it all traces back to Chen's poverty: "He's insecure about his past...
...rich kid from Grosse Pointe, Mich., and the working-class Lebanese kid from Melbourne, Australia, have laid out an interesting blueprint for change and done some things that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. They have broken ranks with other U.S. automakers. Last summer, for instance, Nasser announced that fuel mileage for all Ford trucks would be increased 25%, or 5 m.p.g., by 2005 (it is now about 20.5), well ahead of the government mandate that the other big companies are following. And they have gone to great lengths to promote a corporate culture that, as Nasser...
Then they decided to build it, throwing the equivalent of $10 million (in funds and hardware) into the project, and emerging with a blueprint for a machine with an Intel chip, 32 MB of ram and 16 MB of flash memory. Running the free Linux operating system, it features a picture-based touch -sensitive screen, multilingual text-to-speech capabilities and a writing pro-gram that differs enough from the Xerox-patented version used on Palm Pilots to skirt costly licensing fees. It allows e-mail and Net access, provided there is a working telephone line. All this, with smart...
...Columbine effect,' and TIME bestowed it on the shooters," wrote a Californian, who added, "You may inspire more killing." Echoing the point, a reader from Charlotte, N.C., declared, "A better headline for your cover would have been 'The Media Effect.' The relentless coverage of these tragedies provides a blueprint for every disillusioned kid in America to exact revenge." And a New York City reader urged us to "stop publishing the names and photos of the perpetrators; you should signal that school violence leads only to certain punishment and scorn...
...action. As well as providing news of upcoming competitions, pro tips on bot-building and rules for entry, the site is one of the first to employ the new SVG graphics and animation file format that lets you customize your onscreen destruction machines. You can't make a complete blueprint or engage in virtual combat - not yet, anyway - but online brainstorming might save time when you get down to the nuts and bolts of building...