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While the U.S. and Europe are concentrating on using RFID in logistics, Jun Murai, head of Japan's Auto-ID center at Keio University, says gadget-crazy Asians in Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong are more likely to want household items with RFID chips that can communicate with a home network. The Chinese are more pragmatic. Shanghai and 44 other cities already use an RFID payment system for public transportation. In Singapore's library system, all 9 million books, videos and DVDs are embedded with antitheft chips, allowing self-checkout. "With bar codes, you need to precisely align...
...when they were there, and whether they remembered their Harvard experience fondly. Some had graduated in the 1950s, before “being gay” meant anything to anyone. Others graduated just a couple of years ago, by which time Will and Grace had become household names...
...pages). Authors Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law School professor and bankruptcy expert, and Amelia Warren Tyagi, a business consultant and Warren's daughter, offer a startling account of the elusiveness of the American Dream. They conclude that modern families are no better off than the Ozzie-and-Harriet household of the past. In fact, they are in worse shape...
After five years of Bob Dole commercials and veritable Viagra-mania, it's hard to believe that the pill that made "erectile dysfunction" a household phrase got its start as a potential treatment for chest pain. Today Viagra is the leading drug for impotence, with worldwide sales of $1.7 billion. Its manufacturer, Pfizer, boasts that nine of the little blue pills are popped every second...
...tell that again from the Dirty house, a converted furniture factory that he turned into a residence and studio for Tim Noble and Sue Webster, artists whose most notorious early work was called Dirty White Trash (with Gulls), an installation that consisted of six months' worth of their household garbage. A newly built glass-walled upper story holds the couple's living space. The high-ceilinged lower floor contains their office and two studios...