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Tech was a bargain for about a nanosecond. With the tech-laden NASDAQ having surged 40% since early April, the stocks are starting to resemble an unlit cherry bomb on the Fourth of July. Consider that the average blue-chip tech stock trades at 40 times this year's earnings, up sharply from 29 just six weeks...
...Bush Administration's submission to Congress for approval. A former air force pilot and prisoner of war in Hanoi, Peterson is expected to leave July 15. RETIRED. GORDON MOORE, 72, Intel Corp. founder and articulator of "Moore's Law," a prediction that the number of transistors on a silicon chip will double every year; in Santa Clara, California. He will continue serving as chairman and director emeritus but will have no voting power. EXTRADITION UPHELD.Of FRANZ MEIJER 46, to the Netherlands for the 1983 kidnapping of beer magnate Alfred Heineken; in Paraguay. Meijer and four others abducted Heineken...
...cultural terms. The 22.2 million Taiwanese and the rest of Asia as well have posited a Taiwan that is so much more than a cold war bulwark and superpower pawn. The island that used to be thought of as the un-China, the anti-Mao or, later, the chip fabricator, the hardware producer, is now, in its eyes at least, the bustling cultural center of Greater China. Of course, the mainland still dominates the Chinese world in geopolitical and economic terms, but whose soap operas are they watching in Bangkok? And whose Mando-pop CDs are they buying in Kuala...
...Taiwanese Everyman--successful, middle class, proud of his detached home and little garden. His wire-frame glasses, oxford-cloth shirt and chinos give him the look of a millennial cyberpeasant. If he weren't President, his sartorial choices seem to say, he might have risen to run a chip-fabrication plant or dream up a B2B application...
...Maybe showing that this simpler system does work might help chip away at those silly "security" questions the gate agents ask before you board (When's the last time a terrorist admitted to not packing his own bag?) This week Levy took a step closer to his dream. He is the co-founder of FairAir, a new service that provides the country's first fully- transferable airline ticket. That's right: you can now buy a ticket on FairAir.com on one of the four participating airlines (Northwest, America West, National and Midway) and you can do what you wish with...