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When executives do venture into new fields through mergers, they are now more likely to adopt a hands-off policy toward the acquired companies. IBM last year completed the $1.9 billion purchase of Rolm Corp., a Silicon Valley maker of telecommunications equipment. The button-down computer giant has since left its freewheeling subsidiary largely alone. "We didn't come here to fill up the swimming pool with gravel," an IBM official assured Rolm employees, who have happily retained their corporate hot tubs, saunas and water-polo team. General Motors has vowed to pursue a similar strategy with Hughes Aircraft, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bigger Yes, But Better? | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...been expressed by splurges of color. From the jazz age onward, pop culture has gone polychrome in a big way: color, brilliant and various, has been almost obligatory in all things, from clothing to kitchen appliances to automobiles to furniture. What was not cotton-candy pink was smile-button yellow; if not sunset orange, then avocado green. Black, however, remained stricken from the palette, used only when demanded by function or material (tires, outdoor grills, cast-iron skillets) and in a few ritual contexts (limousines and hearses, tuxedoes, evening gowns and the costumes of mourners and clerics). When people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Allure of Darth Vaderism | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

CATHERINE BUTTON Westampton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 25, 2005 | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...newsflash prewritten by Simpson - "Vatican says Pope has died" - after being phoned by colleague Nicole Winfield, whose Blackberry had vibrated with the news. Still, AP and ANSA were ahead of the pack. When a new pope is chosen, they'll all be waiting, fingers poised over the "send" button, for a puff of white smoke to appear over the Sistine Chapel. The name will be announced shortly after to the piazza - and maybe simultaneously via another mass email from Navarro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vatican Diary: A New Papacy Begins | 4/16/2005 | See Source »

...relics of this bygone era—Q-Tip of ATCQ and club stalwarts The Chemical Brothers—have collaborated on a new track: “Galvanize” from the latter’s new LP “Push the Button...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POP SCREEN | 4/15/2005 | See Source »

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