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...lacks. It is very much like an iPod - at $250, the 30GB music and video player is the same price as an iPod, only a little larger in size. And, like iTunes, the Zune software combines a media organizer and an Internet music download store. The so-called "iPod killer" additions are wireless connectivity for Zune-to-Zune sharing of music samples, a movie-friendly wide screen, and an "all you can eat" monthly music download plan...
...give more weight to the risks of taking a positive action—in this case, consuming a potentially useful drug—than to the risks of inaction? Why is it scarier that a drug will cause us heart trouble than that not taking a targeted cancer-killer will result in our deaths? Rationally speaking, it’s not: A death from a heart attack is not much worse than a death from colon cancer. So, if I have cancer and Gleevec makes it 20 percent less likely that I will die from that cancer but it also...
...price war with Microsoft. Given its year head start, Microsoft could afford to cut prices on the 360 by up to $100 this spring. Xbox Live, the online service, has proved popular with gamers-and Microsoft could be close to announcing movie downloads for it, a possible killer app. Sony has similar aspirations for its online offering, which is getting a major upgrade with the PS3, though for now it's playing catch...
...applicants.The biggest questions about packaging concern the personal essay. On its website, College Consulting Services offers to assist students by “brainstorming essay topics, selecting essay choices that focus on your interests and strengths, and providing an optional writing workshop to teach you how to write a killer essay.” But all of the companies interviewed for this article insist that they would never write an essay for a student. “We’re not writing the essays for them,” says Green. “Everyone should have the opportunity...
DIED. Robert Anderson, 85, automotive engineer turned chairman of Rockwell International, who expanded the firm into an aerospace giant that built space shuttles and the much maligned, hugely expensive B-1 long-range bomber; in Los Angeles. Known for his bluntness--"A bomber is a baby killer; people don't like bombers," he once said--Anderson successfully lobbied Ronald Reagan's aides to resurrect the controversial B-1, which could carry nuclear weapons and had little risk of radar detection, after it had been abandoned during the Carter Administration. He also helped devise the 426 hemi engine with which NASCAR...