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The danger is that Macy's will oversaturate its stores with merchandise that is exclusive but still unexciting. "Consumers don't want to go and find the same thing at every darn store," says Pam Danziger, president of Unity Marketing. Steven Keith Platt, head of a Hinsdale, Ill., retail think...
Many of this country's naturally gifted scientists--its most inquisitive, observant, persistent citizens--share a handicap: they can't read yet. They also can't play with matches, focus microscopes or see over lab tables. "Children love to explore the natural world. They love to make sense out of...
INTERNET After the Soviet Union beat the U.S. into space with the launch of Sputnik I, the first satellite, in 1957, the Department of Defense created the Advanced Research Projects Agency to kick-start innovation. It named Joseph Licklider to find ways to protect the U.S. against a space-based...
If University President Lawrence H. Summers had visited his alma mater Friday, he might have picked up some pointers from the annual Charm School at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The institution may be famous for multiplying stem cells and refining fish censors, but when it comes to charm, MIT...
Singapore, meanwhile, with its Biopolis project, is pulling in top biomedical scientists--not just Edison Liu but Americans like geneticist Sydney Brenner and, most recently, husband-and-wife cancer researchers Neal Copeland and Nancy Jenkins, who are leaving the National Cancer Institute after two decades. They turned down competing offers...