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Later this year Aprex, a company based in Fremont, Calif., will begin marketing a high-tech medicine bottle designed to help doctors make sure that patients obey orders. Called MEMS (for medication event monitoring system), the container comes with a tiny computer chip embedded in its cap. When the patient takes off the cap to remove a pill, the chip records the day and time. At the patient's next checkup, the doctor can ask for the bottle back. Then the physician inserts the cap into a special electronic machine that analyzes the data contained in the chip and lets...
...have a genuine reformer in the Soviet Union today, and those who know anything about Russian history know that reformers come rarely and rarely last long. And after every reformation comes counterreformation. So to make the most of Gorbachev is exceedingly important...
...tell you where he'll show next. He's a phantom." Aided by that mystique, Scott organized the professional tours and arranged sponsorship deals in which manufacturers help pay expenses. The company's fortunes have been equally good for a corps of about 125 professionals who now make a living from bass fishing, some earning more than $100,000 a year...
...find anyone swinging a sledgehammer at a Toyota in Blytheville, Ark. Situated in one of the most impoverished sections of the U.S., the Mississippi River town (pop. 24,000) has outdone itself trying to make Japanese business people feel welcome. In 1985, when Blytheville first learned that the Japanese steel firm Yamato Kogyo and North Carolina-based Nucor were looking for a 500-acre site to build a jointly owned mill, the townspeople rallied to action. The school system agreed to add extra English classes and hire special tutors. The Cotton Boll Vocational and Technical School promised low-cost training...
...country derives from the economic relations among its citizens (although Adam Smith had figured out the same thing in the previous century). The leaders of the Russian and Chinese revolutions imposed on the people a totalitarian form of the social compact: You give up your freedom, and we'll make sure you live decently. Bread was one of the most common words on the banners that the workers carried through the streets of Petrograd in 1917, and the promise of food was an important theme in the propaganda of the Communists as they swept to victory in China...