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...linked wirelessly (like the Kindle) via a high-speed cellular network to a store that will support on-demand transactions of under a dollar. There are just two problems. Because everything about Plastic Logic's device is new, right down to a fab plant built in Dresden that's churning out parts, the first model won't reach consumers until 2010. And version 1.0 will render text in standard E-Ink black on gray. CEO Richard Archuleta says a color screen that can handle true black and white (not to mention the gamut of colors needed to reproduce the page...
...think I came here to be a potted plant." -Replying to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's remark, made in January 2007, that Gregg was "the designated 'see-if-we-can-mess-up-the-legislation' guy this year." Almanac of American Politics...
...economic meltdown. Nowhere has that been more evident than in Britain - long the European Union's most enthusiastic cheerleader of American-style deregulation and free trade. On Monday, U.K. unions held a repeat of last week's wildcat strikes protesting a decision by a French-owned oil plant to bring in 300 Italian and Portuguese contract laborers. British workers at the refinery in northeast England say they want jobs to go to locals, not to cheaper foreign workers. The move sparked rare oil-worker walkouts across the U.K. Workers want Prime Minister Gordon Brown to make good...
...investments he seldom too time to study...A solid 8 or 10 percent bored him. By the mid-1970s, he simply couldn't be bothered with any investment that didn't promise tripling his return or more. Ttere was the ten million he threw away on an Oklahoma plant that was to convert cattle manure into national gas. Clint named it the Calorific Reclamation Anaerobic process, CRAP for short. It never worked...
When Sony ends production at its Ichinomiya plant sometime during the next five months, the company will be closing the book on a symbol of its golden age. For 40 years, the assembly lines at Ichinomiya, located southwest of Tokyo, have churned out products like Trinitron TVs that have helped make the Sony brand synonymous with quality and innovation in the minds of consumers worldwide. (See pictures of the history of Japan's interaction with the world...