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...opening of a current, highly acclaimed show in upstate New York. Her work is now in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney in New York as well as the Detroit Institute of Art. Recently, she was commissioned to create a work for the Microsoft Corporation as well—a large piece that now stands in one of the company’s courtyards and is lit by artificial moonlight at night...
...world and a list of the richest Americans. Given all the overlap one wonders if they’re not pandering to billionaire vanity—and a look at the top of the list is a pretty interesting commentary on the state of the economy. Predictably, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and the preternaturally genius investor Warren Buffett occupied the top spots. What is most striking, however, is that five of the ten richest people in the world have the same last name: Walton. They are the widow and four children of the late Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart...
...Microsoft aside, it’s unusual for someone talking about the business practices of one company to be able to claim economic ramifications applicable to the whole country, but McKinsey shows that to be precisely the case with Wal-Mart. From its founding in Bentonville in 1962 to today’s 1600 stores, 1000 supercenters, 1000 international stores and 500 Sam’s Clubs, Wal-Mart has gotten to the point where it is a macroeconomic force in the countries in which it operates...
With his school uniform and his plump, pinchable cheeks, Derek Jacobs of Boca Raton, Fla., looks like an ordinary youngster. But looks can deceive. When he was 12, Microsoft certified Derek as a qualified systems engineer, one of the youngest ever. At 13 he was running his own computer-consulting company. Now he's 14, and what's Derek doing for an encore? He's becoming a cyborg--part man-child, part machine...
...stories? Does its existence manufacture entirely new desires? Or does it encourage impulses that otherwise might not find an outlet? On a mundane level, the last hypothesis seems true. As is often pointed out, most people who have illegally pirated songs off Napster or borrowed a copy of Microsoft Word would never walk into a store and physically steal merchandise...