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...honor roll of history is full of quiet geniuses whose miraculous inventions are scorned at first sight. JACK KILBY, who died in Dallas last week at the age of 81, was no exception. His is hardly a household name, yet what this soft-spoken, 6-ft. 6-in. Missouri native pioneered--the integrated circuit--led us to the moon landing, personal computers, cell phones and the Internet. In short, the modern world. Back in 1958, computer circuits were expensive, unreliable, horribly slow and unlikely to get much faster given that transistors and other components had to be wired together...
Costa Rica, this is your compassion, your solution to the inconvenience of human frailty: hide them, stuff them under beds, lock them in closets, stow them away in the attic, like household mess that has been hastily shoved out of sight right before the company arrives. Let them wander the streets in the darkness, in the rain, alone...
DIED. SHANA ALEXANDER, 79, witty, trailblazing journalist and author; of cancer; in Hermosa Beach, Calif. The first female staff writer at LIFE, she became a household name for her verbal sparring with conservative James Kilpatrick on Point/Counterpoint, a segment on TV's 60 Minutes in the 1970s that was often parodied by Saturday Night Live's Jane Curtin and Dan Aykroyd...
...contrast, his three chief rivals for the Republican nomination were household names in Republican circles. William Henry Seward had been a celebrated Senator from New York for more than a decade and Governor of his state for two terms before he went to Washington. Ohio's Salmon P. Chase, too, had been both Senator and Governor, and had played a central role in the formation of the Republican Party. Edward Bates was a widely respected elder statesman from Missouri, a former Congressman whose opinions on national matters were still widely sought. All three men, knowing they were better educated, more...
...course, selling household-name merchandise to the world does not guarantee success. Companies with great brands and global reach can still lose money. But a well-respected brand can often persuade customers to pay more for its product, which helps maintain margins in the fight against lesser-known rivals. Without brands, Taiwan's contract manufacturers are forced to compete with one another almost exclusively on price as they seek to land deals to supply the Apples and HPs of the world?and that kills profits. According to Macquarie Securities in Taipei, the net profit margins at six major Taiwan tech...