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Next, assess each innovation for its value to customers. Obvious? Sure, but most new consumer products fail because nobody wants them. Carlson says the idea of value has moved beyond cost and quality to include such abstractions as convenience and conscience. Apple CEO Steve Jobs, for example, quickly recognized that the iPod would address the crucial consumer needs of simplicity and portability...
...would go a step further and ask, Who needs small private schools? While Gibbs and Thornburgh maintain that "small is beautiful," they fail to acknowledge the prominence of America's public universities. The "If you are talented, the sky is the limit" mentality is most appropriate in a public university where students face a more real-world atmosphere of independence and hard work, without a doting dean serving as a third parent. And success has been proved: the majority of the FORTUNE 50 CEOs hail not from the Ivies or small private colleges but from our public universities. KEVIN JAMES...
...Jude K.C. Lam Hong Kong Defining the Crisis Lisa Beyer's analysis of why the Middle East crisis isn't really about terrorism [Aug. 7] was an incisive assessment of the U.S.'s misguided foreign policy in the region. She further explained why that policy is virtually guaranteed to fail. The disastrous outcome of our policy in Iraq should have prompted U.S. leaders to see the terrorism problem in a more comprehensive way. The lives of thousands of innocent soldiers and civilians are in jeopardy. Richard Busch Leesburg, Virginia, U.S. Israel repeatedly claims that the necessity of its efforts...
...along with them." And the argument isn't likely to be settled soon. DNA tests of the skeleton might prove conclusively that it's from a modern human, but DNA doesn't last long in the tropics, so any effort to recover genetic material is likely to fail. Meanwhile, the search for additional fossil evidence is on hold because Jakarta has barred further excavations at the site where the hobbit was found. For now, he remains in scientific limbo, half way between myth...
...round out a slew of big introductory lecture classes, take a freshman seminar—they’re all pass-fail, and many are taught by some of the biggest names in the College’s faculty. This is one-on-one time with hot-shot professors that you won’t get otherwise...