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...come into the store almost every morning at 6:15 a.m. to open up. He used to work as a pharmacist, but ever since Billings & Stover stopped selling drugs, he “mostly putters around,” as he puts it. Every morning he cooks up chocolate chip cookies, makes the coffee and helps Madanian set up the fudge and baked goods...
...manufacturers are increasingly moving to the mainland, where labor is cheaper, and where powerhouses such as Dell and IBM are expanding their market presence. In November Taiwan lifted its $50 million cap on individual mainland investments, launching Taiwanese-invested companies such as Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing to build billion-dollar chip factories there...
...relatively safe route into Japan is blue-chip Japanese exporters, which, while not dirt cheap, stand to benefit from renewed buying among U.S. customers and a continuing slide in the yen. David Bowers, chief international strategist at Merrill Lynch, likes the copier company Canon, where 84% of sales are outside Japan, and consumer electronics giant Pioneer, where 64% of sales are outside Japan. Also on his list is Nissan, which has been aggressively investing in new production technologies. All three stocks trade in the U.S. as American Depositary Receipts...
...occupant of the Oval Office. The same goes for a pretzel. Washington's official line is that wartime Prez George W. Bush was taken to the mat by a lowly pretzel while watching American football. But world reaction has been fairly skeptical. Surely President Bush, a potato chip and pork rinds sort of guy, is familiar with proper snack consumption. (Open mouth. Chew. Swallow. Repeat.) Was this a rogue pretzel acting on its own deranged whims, a la Richard Reid? Or could this single snack be linked to a greater conspiracy of evildoers, perhaps globe spanning in its dimensions...
Manipulating video--distilling those 90-min. tapes of mind-numbing music recitals and awards banquets into amusing, fast-moving 3-min. shorts--is almost as simple on the new iMac, which features a fast G4 chip, just like Apple's top-of-the-line machines. When you're done creating your masterpiece (with iMovie), you can copy it onto a DVD (with iDVD, of course). A DVD burner is squeezed into the high-end $1,800 model. While it's hard to come up with a perfect Apple-to-PC comparison, a top-of-the-line Dell Dimension 8200, with...