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...their best (which, until the iMac, hasn't been all that often), Apple products dazzle by giving us what we didn't know we wanted but suddenly can't live without. This fall we'll learn whether America's been yearning for a blueberry laptop built of bulletproof polycarbonate plastic (to make it, Ive explains, "rugged, robust, structural") and co-molded rubber (to make it "compliant, yielding, human"). And a little foldout handle. And a sleep light that throbs like a heartbeat. And a sleek, round charger whose cord rolls up like...
...lining. Has Asia's crisis laid the foundation for sounder economic growth in the future? The answer is a definite maybe. The crisis has curbed some of the worst abuses of crony capitalism, and it has tempered the dangerous belief that "Asian values" somehow made the region's economies bulletproof. The crisis has also probably done some good by softening free-market fundamentalism: countries are less likely to be pressured into throwing their capital markets open to the world before their financial markets are ready, and Washington is less likely to view the main purpose of economic diplomacy as making...
...brother who said that her boyfriend had called him and told him to tell her "I'm on the way over to the house to shoot it up." A second call was made in which her boyfriend stated "I'm in Somerville, I have my gun and a bulletproof vest." He had been issued a restraining order one day earlier...
...repeat after me: No stock is bulletproof. Not GE. Not Big Blue. Not Ma Bell. Not [your company here]. Some are less vulnerable. But shifting consumer tastes and new technologies can devastate any company any time. No one understands that better than highly paid executives--unless it's the financial firms that advise them...
EDWARD BARNES is the only TIME staff member who keeps a bulletproof vest hanging in his office. For most of his career Barnes has specialized in getting incredible stories out of impossible places. While covering the 1991 Persian Gulf War for LIFE magazine, he was so close to the front lines that four Iraqi Republican Guards surrendered to him. Last week when fighting heated up in Sierra Leone, Barnes didn't hesitate. He jetted from New York City to Paris on Tuesday, then traveled through the Ivory Coast and Mali to Guinea, where he caught a Nigerian helicopter into Freetown...