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...philosophy: Fly a whole lot, and learn where the gotchas are. He admits that he would like to go to the moon someday, but he doesn't waste his time dreaming. "It's pointless and a distraction. You get people with stars in their eyes looking at ways to conquer the solar system," he says. "I spend more time worrying about which part I have to make next...
...Bush went on to conquer Texas politics, and by then Molly reigned as a major figure in Texas journalism. Eventually, of course, they were both more widely known beyond the Red River, but their journeys to the national stage were very different. While Bush came to embrace his political heritage, Molly veered from her own. Her family was Republican, but she was caught up in the turmoil of the '60s and became an ardent liberal, or "populist" as Texas liberals like to call themselves...
Jobs had just led Apple on a triumphant rampage through a new market sector, portable digital-music players, and he was looking around for more technology to conquer. He found the ideal target sitting on his hip. Consumers bought nearly a billion cell phones last year, 10 times the number of iPods in circulation. Break off just 1% of that, and you can buy yourself a lot of black turtlenecks. "It was unanimous that this should be it," Jobs says. "It wasn't even by a little, it was by a mile. It was the hardest one too." Apple...
...Jobs had just led Apple on a triumphant rampage through a new market sector, portable music players, and he was looking around for more technology to conquer. He found the ideal target tech sitting on his hip. Consumers bought nearly a billion of cell phones last year, which is 10 times the number of iPods in circulation. Break off just 1% of that and you can buy yourself a lot of black turtlenecks. Apple's new iPhone could do to the cell phone market what the iPod did to the portable music player market: crush it pitilessly beneath the weight...
...groovin’ like they should.” And James has reason to boast: California Cryobank “demands sperm counts that are higher than the average,” says Pedrussian.However, $900 a month was still a few, ahem, squirts away. James still had to conquer the lengthy 27-page family history. “You profile yourself your siblings, your parents, your grandparents,” he says. He and other candidates at this stage are given $50 for this trouble, “a trifling sum” according to James. Once this paperwork...