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...laptops he showed off during a press conference at Apple HQ in Cupertino, Calif., this morning, for instance, are cleaner, simpler versions of the existing line of MacBooks and MacBook Pros, but manage to do much more. (That's a lesson that PC makers, who load each new generation of their machines with endless gimmicks and extras, never seem to learn.) At this rate of hacking down the product line, I suspect that within three years, the MacBook will be nothing more than a sheet of unbreakable glass...
...clear message from Asia is that more intervention is needed to restore the financial system. The crisis is "now too big to be solved by the private sector," says Takahide Kiuchi, chief economist of Nomura Securities in Tokyo. It's a lesson Asia learned a decade...
...could change laissez-faire attitudes about money. "I think the world needed this, actually," says Wong. "My kids and my friends' kids are spoiled. We made lots and lots of money, and we gave them the impression that it's easy and assured. So this is all a good lesson...
...stairs leading to “Studio 74” at the Office for the Arts are already packed with a peculiar crowd by 8 p.m., when the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team swing lesson is scheduled to begin. Local community members of every age—Baby Boomer couples looking to spice up married life, graduate students fine-tuning their skillz on the dance floor, and a motley of others—mingle with students as we wait awkwardly for the previous class to vacate the room...
...lesson begins with a surprise: the instructor announces that partners will be mixed together randomly, and two seconds later a quick and confident woman named Angela has split us up. She is unfazed by our attempt to scare her off by saying it’s our first lesson...