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...Marathon ... But these days, many of those over 65 who prepared themselves for a life of leisure found they were not cut out for it. For them, the greatest luxury of retirement is returning to work--on their own terms. Robert Pamplin, 76, former head of the Georgia-Pacific Corp., prudently began plotting his corporate afterlife 10 years before he reached his company's mandatory retirement age. In 1976, on his 65th birthday, he bought a small sand-and-gravel company. Ten years and two other acquisitions later, he oversees a small empire with revenues of $420 million. Pamplin...
...President George W. Bush was telling reporters, there is absolutely no doubt that Vice President Dick Cheney will beat the allegation that Halliburton Corp. cooked the books while he was CEO. And as for that slide in the stock market, chalk it up to a "hangover" from the Roaring Nineties (when Someone Else was in charge). According to a Bush adviser, the President is focused on the big picture and is "relatively uninterested in the daily economic ups and downs." Would that include the 390-point implosion in the Dow last Friday, which sent stocks hurtling through post...
REAL RAY GUNS Further out on the horizon, the line between weapons development and science fiction becomes perilously thin. Mission Research Corp. of Santa Barbara, Calif., is working on a pulsed energy projectile (PEP) that superheats the surface moisture around a target so rapidly that it literally explodes, producing a bright flash of light and a loud bang. The effect is like a stun grenade, but unlike a grenade the PEP travels at nearly the speed of light and can take out a target with pinpoint accuracy. Or picture this: a flashlight-size device, currently in development at HSV Technologies...
...Chinese cities. But foreign industrial companies doing business in China also have to be diligent about protecting their branded products, as Volkswagen was reminded when some of its parts turned up in the Chery, a popular Chinese-made car. The Chery is part-owned by the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., which has a partnership with VW to assemble and market popular cars like the Polo and the Jetta. (SAIC says it bought the VW parts on the open market...
...REAL RAY GUNS Further out on the horizon, the line between weapons development and science fiction becomes perilously thin. Mission Research Corp. of Santa Barbara, Calif., is working on a pulsed energy projectile (PEP) that superheats the surface moisture around a target so rapidly that it literally explodes, producing a bright flash of light and a loud bang. The effect is like a stun grenade, but unlike a grenade the pep travels at nearly the speed of light and can take out a target with pinpoint accuracy. Or picture this: a flashlight-size device, currently in development at HSV Technologies...