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Shimon Peres and Benjamin Netanyahu desperately want to win over Ron Gadish. An executive at a high-tech firm in the coastal city of Herzliya, Gadish still hasn't made up his mind whom to vote for in two weeks. He views Peres, the incumbent, as visionary but perhaps too starry-eyed. Netanyahu seems more grounded but worrisomely untested. With neither Peres nor Netanyahu yet attracting a firm majority in the polls, the decision in the May 29 prime ministerial election will come down to Gadish's vote and those of the other 200,000 uncommitted Israelis...
...gets lifetime employment anymore, not even at companies like Hewlett-Packard, a visionary $31.5 billion high-tech firm that makes just about every good-guy list extant. Instead, HP employs a system of redeployment for "excessed" workers. They can hunt for other positions within the company for 90 days, fully paid and free of job responsibilities. Usually the company will make another job offer. But if an employee decides to leave, he or she still receives a generous severance package...
...most businesses being first to market grants a lead not easily forfeited. McDonald's, Coke and Hertz debuted years before Burger King, Pepsi and Avis, and have held on. In the high-tech world, however, the opposite appears to obtain: early products such as Betamax and Macintosh were steamrollered by latecomers that waited for markets to mature and newer technologies to develop...
Gustavo De La Riva's lab boasts an imposing assortment of high-tech gear: automated machines for synthesizing DNA, centrifuges for swirling cell cultures, growth chambers for coddling delicate seedlings. There is even a particle gun that genetically transforms sugarcane embryos by peppering them with DNA-coated BBs. But what really impresses foreign visitors is the folding cot that occupies a corner of De la Riva's office. At the Centro de Ingenieria Genetica y Biotecnologia (CIGB) in Havana, Cuba, De la Riva explains, researchers strive to stay ahead of the competition by sleeping alongside their experiments...
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (May 22). For all the bustle and flash in the trailer for this high-tech retake of the '60s series, the revelation that smites you is: Tom Cruise has a very large nose. This might not matter, since he also has a very large fan base; in the past decade his films have averaged $100 million U.S. gross. See that and raise you $50 million for this Mission...