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Everybody knows that babies are good for business, but few know it quite as well as Tracie Pierce. She's director of operations at Fetal Fotos, a chain of studios headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, that sells to expectant mothers ultrasound portraits of their babies while they are still in the womb. The chain is the largest of perhaps two dozen similar businesses cropping up at strip malls and on street-corners around the country. They owe their popularity to improvements in the software used to create ultrasound images. Mothers willing to give $150 and 30 minutes of their...
Would you like worms with that grasshopper? A former Thai disc jockey and her ex-shrimp-farmer boyfriend have launched Insects Inter, Thailand's first fast-food chain specializing in cooked bugs. Water beetles and scorpions have long been popular foods in the country's impoverished northern provinces, but Pailin Thanomkait, 32, and Satapol Polprapas, 29, are betting that middle-income urbanites and adventurous Western visitors will pay 70¢ for a box of crispy fried crickets with chili sauce. The company's network of kiosks has doubled to 60 in the past four months, and Insects Inter aims to have...
...past five years American companies such as Starbucks, Old Navy and Disney have opened busy stores in Harlem--the historic African-American neighborhood in upper Manhattan that is enjoying a rebirth following a decades-long economic slump. Last month H&M (Hennes & Mauritz), the Swedish chain that specializes in reasonably priced but trendy fashions, became the first foreign apparel retailer to join the migration north from midtown. Says Karen Belva, an H&M spokeswoman: "We're new to the U.S., and to be part of something that's up-and-coming is good for us, imagewise. And our prices...
Data-security companies are working on protecting every level of the data chain, from authenticating users to demonstrating when a communication has been tampered with in transit (a task that a sealed envelope performs with an elegant simplicity difficult to achieve in cyberspace). Though email encryption seems the most obvious use, its market, according to IDC, will probably be flat, because there are adequate options, like the program PGP (short for "pretty good privacy"), available free at web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html Instead, the main drivers of growth stand to come in the areas of database and wireless security...
...precise chain of events leading up to the arrest remains vague, but apparently someone called the sniper tip line Wednesday night claiming responsibility for the sniper attacks and urged police to "check out Montgomery." An investigator thought to look beyond Montgomery County, Maryland, where many of the shootings occurred, to Montgomery, Alabama, where police are still looking into a fatal robbery that took place on September 21st...