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Harvard continued to chip away. There was Bryan Hale, fruitlessly running out a ground ball like a madman in the sixth. There was the infield defense, turning flawless double plays in the sixth and seventh. There was Hendricks, hitting ropes in the seventh and eighth...
BRIEFS A7 Shell's game in Libya; Coke's global woes; a chip rebound; camcorder phones; the cheap skies...
...Index, which perked up last month after yet another research group forecast a recovery in 2004, is up 70% from a year ago (though still below its 52-week peak in January). On the heels of upward predictions by IDC and IC Insights, Gartner revised its estimates of global chip sales to call for a 23%-to-32% surge this year, but the boom probably won't last long. Gartner's latest report also lowered its 18% growth forecast...
...used for exorbitant calls to Central America and Asia--he decided he'd had enough. To put an end to swiped identities and pilfered credit cards, he and IBM engineer Franco Motika set about developing a new generation of smart cards. The recently patented, theftproof card contains a computer chip and features a tiny numerical keypad right on its face. The cardholder inputs a PIN, stored directly in the card's circuitry; the same code must be entered before each use. The PIN turns the card on and generates a unique one-time-only transaction code. For approval, that code...
...fighting for play-off position in the NBA's talent-rich Western Conference, he's not an anxious guy. "Being a coach is more frustrating than stressful, because so much is beyond your control." He may draw up the brilliant play, but Yao Ming has to make the chip shot. Knowing that someday they are likely to be fired, Van Gundy and others take comfort in the big paychecks. Before he got to the top, he scraped along as a lowly assistant at the college and pro levels. Real stress, he says, is "living paycheck to paycheck to take care...