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...which the fruit-impaired might also recognize as red, green, blue, orange, and purple). Those are the shades the iMac will now come in--part of Apple's push to make the marketing of the personal computer less a matter of megahertz and more of design. To sweeten the pie, the company is cutting the price by a hundred bucks, and, in a bow to today's instant nostalgia, selling the remaining first-edition iMacs (you remember, with that Bondi blue case that's SO five minutes ago) for a svelte...
...really complete only when he's there. Abled people are inconvenienced for him. But this is more than just a house Christopher Reeve could use. The top floor is a concrete box that hangs implausibly over the column-free middle floor, as if two halves of an Eskimo Pie were held apart by nothing. The box is supported by a huge spiral-stair-filled column outside and anchored on one side by a vestigial-looking tendon that plunges into the ground. On the middle story, floor-to-ceiling windows slide away on hidden tracks to make the room disappear almost...
...gourmet (and only the gourmet) has baffled my Harvard friends from day one. By an unhappy coincidence, my 18th birthday coincided with the first day of classes freshman year: my mother saved me from dining hall misery by setting up a Fedex account and air-mailing me an apricot pie (to the astonishment of my roommates). This was but the first in a long series of misunderstandings by my friends...
...minds of shoppers and investors this holiday season. Internet consumers will buy $3.5 billion worth of goods in the last three months of this year, and $7.8 billion for the year, according to Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass. That's a thin slice of the overall retailing pie, but it's growing fast--projected to reach $32 billion in five years...
Still, it's likely Ray Kroc would have moved on to something else if he had found a better idea. Even after McDonald's was well established, Kroc still tried, often with dismal results, to move forward with upscale hamburger restaurants, German-tavern restaurants, pie shops and even theme parks, like Disneyland. He always had a keen sense of the power of novelty and a strong belief in himself and his vision...