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...triggering another Einstein-like explosion in our view of the universe: the laws of physics, apparently, are mutable; constants like the speed of light may change slightly over time. Pretty paradigm-shattering stuff, but for my psyche it wasn't nearly as hard to handle as the latest Palm Pilot story...
...which parts had been underlined. Eventually, he compiled Bobby's best speeches and favorite passages into a book, Make Gentle the Life of This World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy. "Obviously, this project is an attempt to make whole a part of myself," he told the Palm Beach Post. But Max insisted he was not interested in bearing the weight of his father's legacy. "Carrying the torch?" he said. "That...
...Kennedys are a cable-stitched clan. The sisters communicate by long distance at least once a week; Jack and his brothers hold daily strategy meetings by telephone or in person. Father Joe, whether in his Manhattan office, his summer home in Hyannisport, his winter palace in Palm Beach, or his between-seasons residence on the Riviera, gets the latest daily report from one of the boys, and when Mother Rose makes one of her frequent trips to the ateliers of Paris, she can count on weekly letters, with the latest intelligence from each of her children...
...owned by Microsoft. The Xbox is being made by Flextronics, a company that few consumers have heard of but that computer and telecommunications-equipment makers are eager to do business with. Indeed, near Building 12 are 16 production lines for Cisco Systems digital network routers. Other buildings produce Palm Pilots and DirecTV set-top boxes...
Consider Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins, the brains behind the ubiquitous PDA, the Palm Pilot. They left Palm three years ago and started Handspring with a scheme for a competing PDA, the Visor. Within 15 months, Handspring was shipping its new Visors, thanks to Flextronics and Solectron. And now the Visor has 7% of the $4.3 billion global PDA market...