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...deal with a rival operating system. Other cell-phone manufacturers like Motorola and Qualcomm are also releasing their blueprints. Even companies like HP, whose latest Journada handheld computer has a built-in smart phone, are getting in on the act. "Clearly, everyone wants a piece of everyone else's pie," says Sarah Kim, a mobile-communications analyst for the Yankee Group. "There's an amazing war brewing...
...Peoria, Ill., junior cooks can whip up such specialties as strawberry salad and mint-brownie pie in classes sponsored by the Peoria Park District. Sur La Table, a nationwide chain that sells specialty cookware, offers summer cooking camps in its stores, with courses that include making sushi, pie baking and a chocolate workshop for teens. The chain also carries children's cookware; in 1997 kids' products accounted for 1% of its sales; today they account for 5%. New York City's American Museum of Natural History invites the children of its members to submit recipes to win a place...
...Marijuana: Easy as pie. Mmmm...pie...
...inevitable big kiss is remarkably chaste; no one has sex with a dessert. But not every teen film has to be American Pie; now and then Hollywood can serve puff pastry, and this one is on the tasty side. Moore, who went attractively brunet for the role, delicately shows Jamie's roiling emotions. When pop-star status deserts her, she might become a movie star, or something more precious: a fine actress...
Wealthy individuals now have some $5 billion in private equity, less than 10% of a pie that remains dominated by pensions and endowments. An investor with less than $3 million may not get decent diversification, and advisers caution that private equity should be no more than 10% of a portfolio. "That level doesn't add a lot of overall risk but can juice returns," says Don Weigandt, a wealth adviser at J.P. Morgan Private Bank. The perfect candidate, then, is worth $30 million or more...