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There are few places in the world as barren, empty and isolated as the western plains of Inner Mongolia?which is precisely the region's draw. For a tourist who has seen it all?and endured the throngs that pack most vacation spots?the vast horizons of the northern steppe offer the perfect opportunity to get away from the familiar. Not to be confused with the independent country of Mongolia to the north, Inner Mongolia lies in a giant arc just beyond the Great Wall, stretching from Manchuria in the east all the way west to Xinjiang?and occupying nearly...
...misleading, as anyone who's ridden a Segway can attest. Just ask Jeff Bezos. On a rainy morning in Seattle recently, Bezos dropped in at a meeting between Kamen, his team and a pair of Amazon execs. The meeting was being held in an Amazon "pick and pack" facility--a warehouse in which employees pick stock from shelves and pack it in boxes for shipment to customers. Kamen had come to sell Amazon some Segways by demonstrating that they would, as Bezos put it, "improve our picking productivity...
...uses hoarse vocals and rugged Neil Young-style electric guitar (rugged? Paul?) to reckon with the departure of a loved one, surely McCartney's wife and much-maligned musical collaborator, Linda, who died in 1998. McCartney shows himself to be as adept at conjuring up angst as any obscure pack of teenagers in a garage. The hurt in his voice turns the innocuous lines "I hear your music and it's driving me wild/Familiar rhythms in a different style" into a lament all the more moving for the fact that it comes from an artist whose trademark has long been...
...Danny Ocean (George Clooney) quizzes his ex (Julia Roberts) about her new beau. "Does he make you laugh like I did?" he asks, and she douses the flame by replying, "He doesn't make me cry like you did." Other than that, this remake of the 1960 Rat Pack caper doesn't offer much. The stars, including Matt Damon and Brad Pitt, hit their marks and smile a lot. The ending hints at a sequel (Ocean's 12? Ocean's 22?), but you've seen this one. Rent a video of Topkapi instead...
...developing world's demands for less expensive medicines and the CEO's usual fight to stay ahead of the competition make up the legs of McKinnell's professional triathlon. With eight drugs that each earn more than $1 billion a year, McKinnell's Pfizer will be ahead of the pack for quite a while...