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From Einstein by Walter Isaacson. © 2007 by Walter Isaacson. To be published by Simon & Schuster, Inc...
...chosen firm, Pennsylvania-based Standing Stone Consulting, Inc., consists of five staff members, one of whom is a specialist in anti-terrorism and weapons of mass destruction...
...allowed him to point his infotech mind-set elsewhere. He invests in start-ups, mostly in health care and education, the two sectors he believes are in deepest crisis. One company, Extended Care Information Network, automates the difficult process of finding extended-care facilities for debilitated patients. Another, Experiencia Inc., is an educational venture that puts grade-schoolers through eight-week courses in economics and science and then immerses them in simulations that bring their learning to life--running a city, dealing with an ecological disaster...
FamilyMart, the 7-Eleven of Japan (which is confusing, since 7-Eleven Inc. is now owned by a Japanese company), has opened 12 stores in California under the excessively excited name Famima!! Its vision of America is pretty complimentary: we're an upscale!!, modern!!, clean!!, cheery!! bunch. Although it has plenty of Asian items, the chain pushes its prepackaged but fresh-pressed panini as well as microwavable pastas. And damn if it didn't improve on the Twinkie: its packaged dessert with a chocolate-covered banana topped with whipped cream and rolled in a vanilla cake is perfect convenience-store...
...former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik of Giuliani Partners nominated for Secretary of Homeland Security was a fiasco. Investigators quickly turned up some undisclosed financial favors done for Kerik by a company seeking municipal contracts. But in general, business and politics have meshed so smoothly inside Rudy Inc. that at times you can't tell them apart...