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...Remember Tucker? One of the hardest truths for any technologist to hear is that success or failure in business is rarely determined by the quality of the technology. Betamax was better than VHS; the Mac operating system is superior to Windows. Even in the transportation business, there is the cautionary tale of Preston Tucker, who in the 1940s designed a "car of the future" packed with such safety innovations as a padded dashboard, disk brakes and safety glass--a car so far ahead of its time that only 51 were ever produced. In fact, the annals of high-tech history...
...Yorkers will find out whether Giuliani's judgment was as sound as it's been so many other times this fall. Bloomberg becomes the 108th mayor of New York at a time when the second hardest job in America is harder than it has ever been. (Campaigning last month for Green, former New York Governor Mario Cuomo had one piece of advice for whoever won: "First, pray.") Bloomberg, 59, spent an estimated $60 million on the race--as much as Ross Perot spent running for President in 1992, more than anyone has ever spent running for mayor of anywhere...
...people responsible for the anthrax attacks, but mopping up the messes they have made in post offices and government buildings seemed like a pretty straightforward--if painstaking--business. As the Environmental Protection Agency experts assigned to decontaminate the Hart Senate Office Building are learning, however, cleanup may be the hardest part...
...certain corners of the country. Interracial couples are most prevalent in cities, university towns and large states with diverse populations: California, Texas, Florida and New York. And not all interracial dating is considered equal. Black-white couples lament that the historic divide between their races is still the hardest to overcome, whether dealing with their parents or their peers. At the Indian Springs school in Birmingham, Ala., recalls Jones, black kids felt it was O.K. to date an Indian, Korean or Latino, but they frowned on dating whites. Asian-white couples have it relatively easy, observes L.E. Hartmann-Ting...
...liver is one of the most complex organs in the body--and one of the hardest to replace. It removes toxins from the blood and manufactures up to 1,000 proteins, metabolites and other vital substances. Now scientists trying to develop an artificial liver have found a way around these complexities: they let rabbit-liver cells do the work. The Bio-Artificial Liver developed by Dr. Kenneth Matsumura has a two-part chamber--patient's blood on one side, live rabbit cells suspended in a solution on the other--with a semipermeable membrane in between. As toxins from the blood...