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...Starbucks began life as a place to get a killer cup of coffee, espresso or cappuccino. A commodity turned into an art form. Great idea. Liquid bliss. But now it's an overcrowded, underdesigned mess. Even McDonald's coffee has been rated higher than Starbucks by Consumer Reports. Your joe has lost its mo. And that's your fault, Howard. And Wall Street's. As a public company, Starbucks is under constant pressure to grow same-store sales to make investors happy. Fair enough. So, like every other retailer, you've asked the question: What else can I run through...
...Tonight I’ll show you what mature burgundies look like. They’re very hard to find in the U.S.,” he says. Latham pours a bit into the glass, the edges of the liquid showing a light brick-red color which confirmed...
...comfortable. Graduate students in sweaters and jeans nibbled on slices of baguette, chatting only occasionally about the wine. As a surprise, Latham brought out a 1998 Hospice de Beaune chardonnay to prove that whites could be tasted after reds—or at least this one. The silky-smooth liquid clung to the tongue, and its echoes lingered long after the tasting was over...
...oddest-looking suborbital ride, however, is by John Carmack, who is building podlike contraptions that sometimes land on all fours. Sometimes not. The Pixel, made for one, is a platform atop four tanks of fuel (liquid oxygen and ethanol). He's not strapping anyone in yet, right? "Funny you should say that," he says, picking up a motorcycle saddle at his Armadillo Aerospace shop one evening. "It goes on top of the electronic box over here. We did a parking-lot flight a couple of years ago and roughed up one of our earlier vehicles." Not to worry, he says...
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