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...just the obvious stuff. The click wheel on the front had to be reinvented to fit the Nano's ridiculously slim 6.9-mm profile. Ditto the battery and chips. "We use every fraction of a millimeter of space to get things in there," says Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller. "It's like a puzzle to fit all that stuff together. It has the tightest tolerances of anything we've ever made in the history of this company...
...family's doctors said they were sorry, explained how the error happened and offered to help with Owen's growing medical bills. The Olsons soon gave up thoughts of legal action. "They have been wonderful about everything," says Trish. "We were angry, but we're not anymore." Dr. Phil Kibort, the hospital's vice president of medical affairs, says, "When I went to medical school, I didn't plan on doing this. But I want [patients] to feel they can trust...
...foam in that area is applied by hand instead of machine, which had seemed like the better method but clearly may not be. Engineers might also replace the ridge with a metal guard. "There is a very good chance the impact on the next flight could be minimal," says Phil Engelauf of the mission operations team. Still, the September flight of Atlantis will almost surely be delayed. How badly the schedule will back up after that is unknown...
DIED. DANNY SIMON, 86, veteran comedy writer for Phil Silvers, Milton Berle and Sid Caesar, and the inspiration for some of the famous characters written by his younger brother Neil; in Portland, Ore. Revered by younger comics--Woody Allen said he learned all he knew about comedy writing from him--Danny had an idea for a play, from his experience as a divorced man living with another, that became Neil's The Odd Couple...
...Kang & Lee Advertising, you have to do more than toss a desi face into a commercial. Values such as education, hierarchy and status are unshakable for desi families, even if modified to reflect American lifestyles. "There's a core belief in higher education and studying and saving," says Phil Salis, vice president of consumer marketing at MetLife, which has created desi-specific television advertising to run on satellite channels such as ZEE TV, B4U, Sony TV and TV Asia. He's not kidding: 64% of Indians in the U.S. hold a bachelor's degree, vs. 24% of the overall population...