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...Lest We Forget...
...Lest our readers think shopping malls are dead, staff writer Karl Taro Greenfeld looks at clicks-and-mortar companies, which are integrating actual stores with online services, and concludes that they may be best positioned to own the future. Chris Taylor examines the food fight among online grocery services, and Maryanne Murray Buechner wonders how Wal-Mart will fare in an e-commerce world. "The Internet clearly has been one of the most dynamic forces in the history of capitalism," says business editor Bill Saporito, who produced the package with help from senior reporter Bernard Baumohl, deputy picture editor Rick...
...much the fault of professors, who make a living by taking ideas seriously. It seems that in a noble attempt to inspire students to share their scholarly excitement, they have crushed great learning into mediocre bits, lest students choke on it. They have reduced great revelation to mere relevance. In the process, the great thinkers who might otherwise inspire men and women to greatness, become cold marble busts sitting mute while scores graduate without their sage teachings...
...things for good. President Clinton is expected to soon sign a bill repealing the decades-old restrictions that have divided brokerage and banking into infusible industries. The bill sweeps aside the Glass-Steagall Act and blesses the brave new banking world embodied in Weill's $689 billion behemoth, Citigroup. Lest there be doubt as to how fully Weill routed the regulators: Rubin, who left government this summer, joined Citigroup last week as a co-chairman...
...lentil pate, steak is replaced by tofu cutlet and a banana-and-ice-cream dessert is made with rice milk instead of cow's milk. Lanza's critter-free meal has less than half the calories of a meat-heavy dinner and a third of the total fat. And lest you think meat-free eating means protein-free eating, the percentage of calories from protein in Lanza's meal is the same as in a steak dinner. If the future can be made this appetizing, even a T-bone palate could learn to be happy in a tofu world...