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...usual, there is a full deck of crappy bowls. Littering your TV during various parts of the vacation will be the Las Vegas Bowl, Motor City Bowl, Aloha and Oahu Bowls, Insight.Com Bowl, Music City Bowl and Micron PC Bowl. There's also one called the Humanitarian Bowl. If its name were true, they wouldn't play it. Idaho vs. Southern Mississippi? Pass the leftovers...
Morita achieved more than most could imagine in one lifetime. If he had been able to read the paper reporting Sony as the No. 1 consumer brand in the U.S., he would have smiled from his beachside mansion in Oahu and said, "Of course! I told you so! After all, Sony was made in the U.S.A...
...have to love it before you are moved to save it," says Sylvia Earle, the marine biologist known as "Her Deepness" since the time in 1979, off the coast of Oahu, when she was cut loose from a submarine and walked freely on the ocean floor, 1,250 ft. beneath the water's surface. The object of her affection requires love of a special magnitude and magnanimity. One has to concede at the outset that the ocean is too vast, deep and secretive to be completely known. It is capable of casual murder and filled with structures that make Picasso...
...sense, Case has spent his whole life preparing to build and run a multibillion-dollar business. His childhood on the island of Oahu was sprinkled with the fiscal adventures of a boy to the cash register born. With his older brother Dan (now 40 and CEO of Hambrecht & Quist, an investment firm that specializes in technology), Case started his first business before he had fully mastered a bicycle. The venture was a variation on a classic model: converting backyard lemons to lemonade. Next the brothers started Case Enterprises, which peddled everything from seeds to watches. Case Enterprises stumbled...
Back in Honolulu, on the other side of Oahu, the tiger-shark tagging is another high-tech effort to understand a different aspect of shark behavior. In 1992 two people were killed by tiger sharks in Hawaiian waters, the first such deaths there in three decades. An earlier spate of killings had provoked an all-out program to eradicate tiger sharks, but it was never clear whether that slaughter had been really effective...