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...didn't Apple do something this bold before? Apple board member William Campbell, CEO of Intuit, says the answer is simple: "They didn't have Steve." Jobs is for once uncharacteristically modest. "A crisis," he says with a shrug, "is a wonderful time to make some changes...
...side effects will prove to be an illusion. All the enzymes and growth-factor receptors blocked by the new drugs play a role in normal cell division as well as in cancer. So disrupting them could cause harm. "Whether the therapy is going to be a major advance, a modest improvement or a disappointment is not clear," says Dr. J. Michael Bishop, molecular biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who shared a 1989 Nobel Prize with Dr. Harold Varmus for their pioneering work on oncogenes. But Bishop is impressed that the field is moving so swiftly, and most...
...rack of network routers and, from there, via a thumb-thick black cable, to the infinite abundance of the Internet. Edward Zeng, the 35-year-old Chinese entrepreneur who commands this tiny outpost in the battle for information freedom, can't resist a grin as he looks around the modest but astonishing room buried within a warren of offices in the bunker-like hallways under Beijing's Capital Stadium. As state-sponsored basketball and badminton teams practice overhead, Zeng pats one of his purring servers and ponders an altogether more dramatic kind of game. "Welcome to ground zero," he says...
...studios sensibly scale down. Troubled Universal's modest non-Hulk slate now includes the biotech scare show Virus, the George Clooney caper Out of Sight and Terry Gilliam's dopester saga Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, with Johnny Depp--not just an anti-summer summer movie but an anti-Hollywood Hollywood movie...
...takes an agile mind to defend drunk driving and kids' smoking. Take the modest proposal to set the drunk-driving threshold at .08 blood-alcohol content nationwide--stricter than the .10 standard in 34 states. The liquor lobby long played on the fear that .08 would mean social drinkers who've had a few after work would all fail the Breathalizer. But research shows you can drink yourself silly before reaching .08: a 170-lb. man can guzzle four martinis inside an hour on an empty stomach before he gets there. He may not be sloppy drunk, but who wants...