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Boom-Boom Zambelli rolled firecracker tubes when he was 7 and was a fireworks shooter at 16. When he graduated from college in 1947, Antonio said to him, Son, it's yours. "I guess he assumed I knew it was a family business and that family comes first. He didn't have to say anything else." George Sr.'s brother-in-law was killed in a fireworks-assembly accident in 1950, but they barely stopped for a funeral. The danger is always there, he says. That's why you respect the material, and that's why you go after...
...takeover targets would be happy to get Yahoo's gold-plated stock. How would you spend the money? Even product development cost only $5 million last quarter, which must buy a lot of server tweaks and Java applets. Noting that Amazon has a similar war chest, our best guess for the bucks: Look for Yahoo's $20 million marketing budget to go into Superbowl-style overdrive. Maybe they'll even start mailing out disks...
...degenerates into something far more serious depends on whether opposition groups suspect that the generals plan to renege on their commitment to hand over power in October -- if they think the military is entrenching itself, they'll try and make the country ungovernable. Right now, it's anybody's guess what the military is planning." In a country where the two most important politicians suddenly expire of natural causes at age 60, anything seems possible...
...Caleb separately announced last week that they'll start shipping their own ultra-high-density drives, which will also be able to run standard floppies. Sony's entry, the HiFD, uses a 200-MB disc. Caleb, a smaller company, based in Boulder, Colo., will use 144-MB discs--I guess because they're exactly 100 times as big as traditional floppies...
...prototypical Minimalist cube, with Ray inside it and some parts of him sticking out--a box with a clockface, for example, its hands moved by the artist, whose legs hang out of two holes in the bottom like a pendulum. Inside, in the darkness, Ray would try to guess what time it was and move the clock hands accordingly...