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...stares to drapes in three easy steps. Vultaggio and partner John Ferolito established a semisuccessful beer distributorship before trying to produce their own brands. Their first choices were a little less refined than mandarin-orange-flavored green tea sweetened with honey. They started Midnight Dragon malt liquor in the mid-1980s and, to promote it, printed thousands of posters featuring a scantily clad woman sipping Midnight Dragon through a straw and a vulgar tagline. Midnight Dragon peaked at 3 million cases annually. In the early '90s, Vultaggio's Crazy Horse malt liquor took off, until protests and lawsuits from Native...
...fight against a Virginia company called MercExchange illustrates how small firms swat away at larger ones, at great cost to both. In 2001 MercExchange founder Tom Woolston, a former military pilot and CIA network engineer, sued eBay, claiming that the company infringed on three patents he filed in the mid-'90s, including one that set out methods for fixed-price online auctions (the so-called Buy It Now patent). In 2003 a jury ruled in Woolston's favor and awarded $35 million in damages...
Brilliant, brooding, fatally naive--J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the tragic figures of mid-20th century America. It was he who led the team at Los Alamos, N.M., that developed the first atom bomb. But after World War II he became an outspoken opponent of developing the even more powerful hydrogen bomb. That stance brought him the powerful enemies who would conspire to have him stripped of his security clearance and publicly humiliated. This biography is masterful, lucid and balanced, always mindful of Oppenheimer's role in his downfall--even at Los Alamos he was frequently surrounded by former...
...those measures are popular with voters, although in practice beefed-up enforcement can create as many problems as it solves. When the Clinton Administration began patrolling the California border more closely in the mid-1990s, the illegal traffic simply shifted eastward--increasing tensions in Arizona and New Mexico, where illegal immigration had largely been tolerated...
...benefits for elderly Israelis, was the surprise of the elections, garnering eight seats. All these factors coalesced to deal the once-dominant right-wing Likud party a resounding blow. Led by ex-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud scraped together only 11 seats. Netanyahu's harsh budget cuts in the mid-1990s are remembered in fury by many Israelis who sought revenge in these polls...