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Nobody can say Steve Jobs hasn't had a couple of good years. He brought Apple Computer back from the grave, and made the company not only competitive but also the most innovative personal-computer maker on the market...
Thanks in part to the publicity surrounding Comet Hale-Bopp and other heavily hyped celestial events, "light pollution went from a nonissue to something that's on everyone's mind," says Maryann Arrien, a documentary-film maker and an amateur astronomer in Putnam Valley, N.Y. Efforts to curb light pollution are under way from the Australian Outback to Britain's Sherwood Forest, according to the International Dark-Sky Association (I.D.A.), which boasts 3,600 members in 70 countries...
Chambers is customer obsessed, a characteristic that will serve the company well as it moves into consumer markets. He discovered the dogma of customer service as a salesman at IBM and and then saw firsthand the cost of losing customer focus when he joined mini-computer maker Wang in the late '80s. As Wang's business eroded--in part because Wang didn't listen to customers--Chambers, the top sales executive, was forced to lay off 4,000 workers. He vows never to do that again, even if it means keeping his company leaner and meaner than seems necessary. "Laying...
...million at the box office, making it the third highest grossing animated film of all time, behind Disney films The Lion King and Aladdin. Working with companies such as Burger King Disney made sure that Buzz, Woody, and all their friends were everywhere. It wasn't merely a money-maker either. Pixar handled the animation and writing side and achieved critical success. Toy Story is the first animated feature to ever be nominated in the Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen category and it received numerous nominations and awards in the areas of animation, music, direction, special effects...
...example, soon after the new arthritis drug Celebrex became available, the Food and Drug Administration received 53 reports of dispensing errors that occurred when it was mistaken for the seizure drug Cerebyx or the antidepressant Celexa. Searle, the maker of Celebrex, ran ads in medical journals this summer to point out the similarities to doctors and pharmacists and make them aware of the dangers of mixing them up. Although the FDA regulates drugs for safety and efficacy, it does not pay as close attention to their names...