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...Mark Helprin; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 792 pages...
...mainly an accounting phenomenon, but its cause was far from heartening: The company was taking a $2.3 billion charge for the full estimated costs of paying 10,000 employees to quit voluntarily in the coming year. At its annual meeting last month, chairman John Akers told stockholders to brace for more bad news: "While we'd like to believe economic recovery is just around the corner, we have seen no evidence yet to indicate any improvement, and consequently the year remains uncertain." The IBM empire is striking back. In a marketing effort unparalleled in its 80-year history, the company...
...with specific needs. Since the market for many of the products is limited, companies cannot produce enough of them to reduce the price to a moderate level. And some promising technologies may not interest any manufacturers. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, has been experimenting with a computerized brace that controls muscle tremors in people with multiple sclerosis and other diseases. So far, no company has agreed to market the device...
FISH EYES by Lois Ehlert (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $13.95). Children first learn arithmetic with their fingers. Then they look around for some new things to number. How about fish? Here, paper collages create a vast aquarium of imaginary underwater swimmers: one green, two jumping, three smiling, etc. The flipping, flashy, finny, skinny specimens help the volume live up to its subtitle, "A Book You Can Count...
BUSINESS: Retailers brace for a lean Christmas...