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...effect, Marks sees his company becoming a one-stop, vertically integrated shop that provides everything from engineering and product design to manufacturing and distribution. "We are a variable-cost manufacturer," explains Marks. "We share the infrastructure among a bunch of customers, so when demand for one product dries up we can switch to something else and we don't get stuck with an idle factory." If the market for handheld computers takes a dive, for instance, the same assembly lines can be used to produce a product of similar size, like a cell phone. That's an efficiency not available...
...Nightlife, like the service itself, was segregated back then. One area in Koza was designated for blacks, and another for whites. Today, while the party spots are still split by race?whites heading toward bars, blacks congregating in hip-hop clubs?it's a mixed bunch that piles into the "loser cruisers," military-run buses for the poor sods stationed on remote camps that take them to bars on base like the Globe & Anchor. But the guys playing arcade games and pool are white; the ones on the dance floor are black...
...France. Three exhibitions are planned for the U.S., and prices are climbing on eBay: shell casings are going for as much as $1,000. Why now? Saunders isn't sure, but he advises anyone with trench art to dig up its story. "This isn't just a weird bunch of objects. It cuts across social, cultural, military and art history...
...Ravens east, hired two other singers and dubbed the new assembly The Coasters. Thus was born not just a group but a genre. It was a wrinkle on the radio playlet: the two-minute rock musical comedy. "Searchin?," "Charlie Brown," "Along Came Jones," "Little Egypt" - the whole raucous, joyous bunch of pastiches bubbled over with sharp point-of-view writing and obscure movie and radio references. Scarface Jones? Bulldog Drummond? Salty Sam and Sweet Sue (in their masterpiece, "Along Came Jones")? Most kids didn?t know that the Shadow was a ?30s radio hero (voiced by Orson Welles), but they...
...will not be an easy task. Old bigotries linger and new obstacles emerge. But if there’s one thing I learned during my summer wandering the streets of Detroit, it’s that Detroiters are a spirited, determined bunch...