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...which helps sellers mine data to learn what customers want, and which ones deserve the most attention. That's great, but why not also include technology that more directly helps shoppers? At Circuit City, based in Richmond, Va., receipts are stored electronically and can be accessed in any store coast to coast. This technology is widely available, but Circuit City has been shrewd enough to feature its version in TV ads, fostering its image as a place where it's easy to return merchandise and where shopping is hassle free. Outdoor equipment retailer REI, based in Kent, Wash., makes smart...
...Karachi, a port city of 14 million on the Pakistani coast, where the Pab mountain range and the Sindh Desert gather into a brick-and dust-hued urban sprawl before tumbling into the Arabian Sea, is the battlefield in which an assassin like M.R. thrives. In Karachi you have ethnic feuds: gangs of Indian migrants versus the Pathans, Baluchis and Sindhis; you have extremists from rival Sunni and Shi'ite sects battling each other (lately, radical Sunnis are gunning down Shi'ite doctors and lawyers at random); and, of course, there are the radical Islamic groups that shelter al-Qaeda...
...Crimson rebounded slightly from the disappointing west coast trip with a 2-2 tie at Cornell followed by victories over Holy Cross and Yale that left Harvard 8-3-1 and in the Ivy-title hunt with a 2-0-1 league record entering its final four games and the heart of its league schedule...
Harvard dropped two heartbreakers on its west-coast swing, losing 7-6 to Cal before falling 10-6 to then-No. 18 Stanford despite playing perhaps its best half of the season. The Crimson let each game slip away after intermission...
...last year, Professors Jamison and Watkins have not shared a house, a university or, for that matter, even a coast...