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...shrinking market has already forced at least three notable vendors out - Konica Minolta exited last spring, selling patents and assets to Sony. Kyocera shuttered its camera business in 2005, two decades after entering the photography market by buying Japan's venerable Yashica Camera Co. and its Contax brand. And Toshiba all but stepped away in 2004. How, then, are other digital-camera vendors going to eke out a living? It won't be easy: two weeks ago, Kodak reported a $282 million second-quarter loss, almost twice that for the same period last year. Low industry-wide profit margins mean...
...faces of the season. Those are people who, by the time winter cracks its knuckles, we expect to be full-fledged members of the pop-culture A team. Some, like Craig, you may already vaguely know, and others, like America Ferrera on the ABC soap-com Ugly Betty, are brand-new and promising faces. Maybe fall is going to get hot after...
...Generics: A good number of patients still ask for "the good stuff" - the actual brand name drug - not the generic forms. By law the pharmacy has to give you the far cheaper generic pill unless the doc writes "DAW" (Dispense As Written) in the little box on the script. It's easy for the doctor to do this - it takes less time and effort to write the three letters than to convince you you're wasting money. I've never seen any significant difference between the generic and branded versions of the drugs I prescribe. Neither have the colleagues...
...high-tech fleets that have set up in the Mediterranean. Many Spanish and French fishing companies have used the subsidies to overhaul their fleets, installing sonar systems and new engines and hugely increasing capacity. "Fishermen used to have old wooden boats, but now most boats in the Mediterranean are brand new," says Alain Fonteneau, a marine biologist for the French government-run Institute of Development Research in Montpellier. Other technologies have contributed; tuna-ranching companies fly spotter planes throughout May over prime breeding grounds off Algeria, Libya and Turkey to track shoals of tuna. (During the rest of the breeding...
...Pakistani or Kashmiri descent, with connections to operatives in Pakistan and an as-yet undetermined relationship with al-Qaeda - appears to have tried again. And though the plot was foiled apparently thanks to good police work and intelligence-gathering, it nonetheless reignited fears that Osama Bin Laden's brand of mass terror is an ever present threat...