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Regaining traction will require what Jobs last week called "a new paradigm." Just what this might consist of, though, is unclear. Build low-cost network computers? Split up into hardware and software siblings? Or just rely on next year's expected release of the post-Mac operating system, Rhapsody, based on Jobs' NeXT technology, which Apple shelled out $424 million for last winter? True believers call Rhapsody the greatest OS ever and Apple's savior (Tim Berners-Lee did invent the Web on it); skeptics call NeXT a marketplace failure and an albatross Apple should have left around Steve Jobs...
...peril are the giant predators of the oceans--sharks, of course, but also marlin, sailfish, swordfish and bluefin tuna, the magnificent swimming machines that have earned the nickname "Porsches of the sea." In the western Atlantic, the breeding population of northern bluefin, the largest tuna species, is thought to consist of perhaps 40,000 adults, down from some 250,000 two decades ago. Reason: the flourishing airfreight industry that allows fish brokers to deliver Atlantic Ocean bluefin overnight to Tokyo's sashimi market, where a single fish can fetch $80,000 or more at auction. "To a fisherman, catching...
...Make It Snappy," Charles Krauthammer praises the sound bite [ESSAY, July 21], but the problem is that most such short phrases lack substance and foundation. And the difficulty with 5-, 10- or 20-minute speeches is that most of them consist of a series of sound bites, equally lacking in substance and foundation. The sound bite has the potential to attract attention and elicit support. However, it is inadequate to the task of intellectual persuasion, the missing ingredient of modern public discourse. FRANK S. KOPPELMAN Evanston...
...book is sub-titled "A Drama of the American Workplace," but there is little that is dramatic in her story--it is entirely devoid of romance, palace intrigue, melancholy, blood or tears. The climactic moment in a given chapter might consist of a guy storming into the design center, screaming something about how "you guys" are making it impossible to fit in a solid chassis and then storming...
...Latin dances consist of the Cha Cha, Samba, Rhumba, Paso Doble and Jive. The Waltz, Tango, Foxtrot, Viennese Waltz and Quickstep make up the standard dances...