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...Mass Ave., past Harvard Law School, under a sign for Lesley University, through glass doors labeled “1815,” beside a City Sports, Gap and Barnes and Noble, is the last thing in the world you’d expect to find: cheap but good Japanese food. The Porter Exchange houses a grocery, bakery, tea stand, ice cream shop and six small crowded restaurants. On a weekend afternoon, the place is jam-packed. Rather than wait in line for seating, claim the bench outside Barnes and Noble. Bring a couple friends and order takeout from multiple...
...dessert, head to The Japonaise Bakery, poised right outside the entrance to the restaurant section. The pastries are delivered daily from the bakery’s home base in Brookline. Its well-lit glass cases contain curry doughnuts ($1.75) and An Pan ($1.30), a Japanese pastry filled with sweet red azuki bean paste. They also host classic French pastries such as croissants ($1.50), which are extraordinarily flaky and butter-filled. The bitter chocolate croissant is one of the best I’ve ever...
...sales shot up 40% over a three-week period. Bars and auto dealerships are using it in the U.S. The system costs $1,500, and for those who want to hear Moby in the mirror, a $20 version called Soundbug let's you play CDs and MP3s through the glass...
...cardboard box was a series of strides. In 1856 the English started to use corrugated paper for sweatband linings in stovepipe hats. Albert L. Jones, a New York City inventor, in 1871 was the first to use corrugated as a packing material, for shipping kerosene-lamp chimneys and other glass. Goodbye sawdust and straw. Over the next two decades cardboard evolved into today's familiar sandwich, a corrugated stuffing between two layers of linerboard...
There's still plenty of risk. On the docket are a dozen unproven biotech firms. Money-losing companies like Anchor Glass and Red Envelope have already slipped through the IPO window. Yet even these outfits are a cut above the dogs of the '90s. The biotechs are nearing approval for new treatments. Anchor, which makes bottles for Snapple, shed pension and health-care costs in bankruptcy court. Red Envelope is an online gift store that should be profitable next quarter, says Linda Killian, a partner at the IPO research firm Renaissance Capital...