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It hardly makes a dent, however, in the annual bumper crop of dead computers. Every year an electronic trash heap nearly as tall as Mount Everest is tossed into garbage cans, stashed in garages or forgotten in closets. Some 500 million PCs will be rendered obsolete by 2007 in the...
Analysts suspect that virtually all of China's bankers have skeletons in their closets. Observers argue that wholesale replacement is impossible because of the nation's dearth of experienced, upright managers. "There's no question reform is happening," says Pu Yonghao, senior economist at Nomura International in Hong Kong and...
Since Professor Otnes has seen it all--from kids who receive generic items out of "gift closets" to manipulative givers whose cards say "Call me the minute you get this!"--I hoped she would support my plan this season to cut off my family entirely.
Still, even the most patient parents may not be automatically rewarded with the liberation of their closets or garages. A decade after their childhood room has become a study, grownup kids in their 30s or 40s may lovingly rummage through their old belongings but still refuse to take them from...
But the crowded shuttles have had far more severe consequences than forcing many Quadlings to retire their khakis to the backs of their closets. The number of Quad residents arriving late to class is reaching epidemic numbers. Many have resorted to emergency measures, which inevitably involve exercise: Walking, biking and...