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...sort of machine that even a Luddite can love. You slide in a card, punch a few digits, and out spurts cash. It's so simple and elegant that-well, it's an affront to a dynamic capitalist society. And it's all about to change. Someday soon, when you just want to score five Andrew Jacksons so you can have dinner at that great little place that doesn't take Visa, you could find yourself in a very slow line behind people sending flowers to Mom or arguing over which seats to buy for the next Disney...
Some supporters of Denzel Washington (Training Day), Will Smith (Ali) and Halle Berry (Monster's Ball) are accused of playing the race card--whispering that if an actor of color doesn't win, it proves that Hollywood is antiblack. Some people competing against A Beautiful Mind--the biopic of schizophrenic mathematician John Nash, with the burly, brawly Crowe as its star--are drawing attention to incidents in the film's source book of anti-Semitic delusions and intense emotional relationships with other men, neither of which appeared in the movie; they're playing the Jewish card and the gay card...
...newly formed company moved from Chan’s room in Boston 13 miles away to Woburn, a hotbed for biotech and Internet startup companies. Five years after hiring their first employees with Chan’s credit card, the brothers have raised $25 million in venture capital...
...however, Dell has muted the naysayers by tweaking its strategy where necessary. In Beijing, for example, the company's delivery drivers carry wireless debit-card machines so customers can pay when their computers arrive, a system that solves the credit-card problem. Today, Dell offers next-day delivery from its factory in Xiamen to 400 cities and towns. And Dell's China market share has grown from near zero in 1998 to 4.4%. That may not sound impressive, but Dell has eclipsed Compaq and is pressing IBM for the top foreign-brand position. In the lucrative segment for corporate server...
...Best Deal: A $13, two-day Budapest Card buys free use of public transport and 60 museums, restaurants and sightseeing tour discounts. Available at tourist and travel agencies, hotels and the airport...