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...supervisory board this April. He will be succeeded as CEO by Bernd Pischetsrieder, who joined VW in 2000 after being forced out of rival BMW in the wake of the company's calamitous investment in Rover. With his insider knowledge of BMW's successful effort to create a high-end image, Pischetsrieder is expected to concentrate on brand building at VW, while trying to get the company's costs down. Some shareholders hope that he will also show more attention to the stock price than Piëch did. His comments on that score so far are hard to read...
...Comics Journal Special Edition" looks great and makes a case for a broadly-appealing high-end journal with a comix focus. Hopefully future issues will attract a quality of critical writing to match the presentation. With more and more contemporary writers openly embracing the art form we should no longer have to look to George Seldes' seventy-five-year-old essay on the delights of "Krazy Kat" as the height of comics criticism. Aimed at regular bookstores, with its combination of both actual comix as well as comix thought and history, perhaps this series of "Special Edition" books will help...
DIED. STANLEY MARCUS, 96, pioneering high-end retailer who transformed a family-run women's-apparel store into the opulent Dallas-based emporium Neiman Marcus; in Dallas. Voted the ugliest boy in his high school class, Marcus went on to receive an M.B.A. from Harvard and made his mark in retailing with the introduction of personalized gift wrapping, in-store fashion shows and his legendary line of extravagant his-and-her gifts, which included a pair of Beechcraft airplanes...
...almost as simple on the new iMac, which features a fast G4 chip, just like Apple's top-of-the-line machines. When you're done creating your masterpiece (with iMovie), you can copy it onto a DVD (with iDVD, of course). A DVD burner is squeezed into the high-end $1,800 model. While it's hard to come up with a perfect Apple-to-PC comparison, a top-of-the-line Dell Dimension 8200, with a flat-panel monitor and dvd burner (plus a faster Pentium 4 processor and much larger hard drive), costs $2,200 and will...
Investor dollars are not the only things flowing out of digital technology and into biotech; plenty of high-end hardware and software are following the money. The pursuit of new drugs through genomics and proteomics requires the gathering and sifting of oceanic volumes of data about molecules and their reactions to one another. Vertex Pharmaceuticals, for example, simulates 47 billion reactions between drugs and proteins a day--nearly as many as the number of e-mails sent out in the world every week. This requires the massive deployment of supercomputers and highly sophisticated programming tools--all key elements...