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This is a world in which Kaplicky can feel more at home, and not just because he once actually collaborated on an ice sculpture with Kapoor or because he considers igloos a useful source of ideas for home design. But his architectural thinking is resolutely outside the box. As he once remarked, "There is nothing to say that every house has to have eight corners." There don't appear to be any at all in the country house in Wales that his firm designed for a Labour Member of Parliament. On its seaward-facing side, it consists of just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking Way Out of the Box | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...that's your fault, Howard. And Wall Street's. As a public company, Starbucks is under constant pressure to grow same-store sales to make investors happy. Fair enough. So, like every other retailer, you've asked the question: What else can I run through this retail box? First it was more complicated, more expensive drinks - your caramel macchiatos, your white chocolate caffe mochas. You guys are actually proud that there are 10,000 different drink combinations. Are you insane? Don't you know what happens when you increase complexity in any business process? Steve Jobs makes 10 products. Seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starbucks: Wake Up, Smell the Coffee | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

...steals. “I believe that Zoller and Jaaber are 1-2 for [Ivy League] Player of the Year,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “They are 1 and 2 in the league in terms of talent level.” And the box score doesn’t tell the whole story—Jaaber’s defense forced the Crimson’s guards into multiple traveling violations and bad passes. “You have to be real careful with the ball [against Jaaber],” freshman guard Jeremy...

Author: By Kevin C. Reyes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First-Place Quakers Run Past Crimson | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

...press conference Monday morning in a grand, sky-lit room at the back of the New York Public library. There was director James Cameron, towering like a a six-foot-plus druidic monolith in a dark jacket and black turtleneck. And there was a light tan limestone box about two feet long lying on a table in front of Cameron - which the Titanic director was presenting as the burial box of Jesus Christ. All things being equal, we know who would be the bigger draw. (It was John Lennon who said he was bigger than Jesus, not Cameron, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Jesus's Tomb? | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

...came up with a new process called "patina fingerprinting," which purports to show that a different bone box that popped up in the hands of an Israeli collector some years ago and is alleged to have contained the remains of Jesus's brother James originally came from Talpiot, which would raise the coincidence level even higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Jesus's Tomb? | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

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