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...what's going on here? There is no mystery about what caused the 1998 squeeze: company executives could not raise prices, no matter how much an increase might have been justified by rising costs, without losing market share to a host of U.S. and global competitors. The current rebound is more difficult to explain: competition is certainly no less keen, nor price boosts any less risky. But Abby Joseph Cohen, chair of the investment-policy committee of Goldman Sachs, gives much of the credit to corporate managers who have figured out effective strategies for prospering in that environment. To scratch...
That's the idea, anyway. But while it's quite plausible according to current neurological theory, that doesn't necessarily make it true. We know Einstein was a genius, and we now know that his brain was physically different from the average. But none of this proves a cause-and-effect relationship. "What you really need," says McLean's Benes, "is to look at the brains of a number of mathematical geniuses to see if the same abnormalities are present...
...analysis of Einstein's brain by Canadian scientists, reported in the current Lancet, reveals that it has some distinctive physical characteristics after all. A portion of the brain that governs mathematical ability and spatial reasoning--two key ingredients to the sort of thinking Einstein did best--was significantly larger than average and may also have had more interconnections among its cells, which could have allowed them to work together more effectively. While the case is far from proven, says Dr. Francine Benes, director of the Structural Neuroscience Laboratory at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., "it's a fascinating discovery...
...release of the Nas video and the subsequent attack on Stoute came as yet more bad news in a year in which Combs had already been fighting to steer his company, Bad Boy Records, out of its current doldrums. The bounty of multiplatinum hits from Mase, the Notorious B.I.G. and Puffy himself has tapered off, and the label's new releases have yet to pick up the slack. Albums by Faith Evans, Total and 112 were all expected to be strong hits, but so far only 112's Room 112 is approaching platinum. "By Puffy standards, a gold record...
...positions: the use of maps that did not correctly identify the embassy; a U.S. intelligence officer who breached procedures in mistakenly picking the embassy over the Yugoslav directorate for procurement; outdated databases; aircrews unable to see identifying markers. Xinhua treated claims of procedural errors with disbelief, saying many current maps accurately identify the embassy and that the building and the directorate look nothing alike. Only three U.S. papers were invited to the American briefing, provoking a letter of complaint from other journalists from the Land of the Free...