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Useless gizmos have a storied history in the wired world. Take singing fish, digital guard dogs and belly-dancing robots. At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, second-tier techno-marketers are proudly carrying on the tradition, hawking wacky wares that beg the question: do we really...
A finite number of major global standards would be good news for consumers, even if they've been a little slow in coming. Big corporations and governments already benefit from a common system of approving offset projects under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. With...
Debbie Willhite, executive director of the Denver 2008 Host Committee, says, "[Taylor feels he] should be able to get into the Pepsi Center to be able to organize. Pepsi Center is privately owned. He's trying to get some leverage." Taylor's protestations have also highlighted the way Republicans will...
Taylor and Local No. 7 are the only labor holdouts to a deal. Says Willhite: "Mr. Taylor let me know from early on that he had some issues about the Pepsi Center. After Denver's labor federation voted to support the convention, we thought that took care of that, and...
Hardly anyone wants to lose out on a convention that could generate hundreds of jobs and more than $150 million for the local economy. Denver officials hope to have everything straightened out by the end of the month. But first it has to get Jim Taylor to bend.