Word: productions
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AstroTurf recently introduced a similar product, provoking a nasty battle and a patent-infringement suit. A new turf war is on, but grass may be the ultimate winner...
Your article on the potential for genetically manipulating humans has left me wondering if scientists have been doing it for years. I am sure Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe is the product of splicing the tail gene of a humpback whale onto the foot gene of a human. PETER CHARTER Durban, South Africa...
...worked in the motion-picture industry for 16 years, but I can't go to the movies anymore [BUSINESS, Sept. 13]. It's not just that the product is mostly crap and the price of tickets ridiculous. It's that the experience of actually being in a movie theater is so unpleasant. I no longer want to sit with the popcorn eaters and ice shakers and those who feel compelled to address the screen--not even if it costs 5[cents] to get in. Hollywood is slitting its own throat, and so is the National Association of Theater Owners. SHARON...
Obviously, the already marked speedup in the pace at which business operates will continue. Says Tapan Munroe, an economics professor at the University of San Francisco, who has his own consulting firm: "We're talking about product life cycles of two to three years or even less. We're talking about industry life cycles of less than a decade." Newman notes that this hectic pace poses "a massive challenge for people with existing successful businesses," whose "natural tendency is to focus on what has made the business successful." They are vulnerable to competition from "upstarts" who "have the advantage...
Everyone knows that waterbeds are tacky. But dangerous? Well, maybe for babies. A new study from the Federal Consumer Product Safety Commission indicates that children under the age of two are more likely to die while sleeping with their parents - particularly in waterbeds - than in their own cribs. Over the course of eight years, 515 children died as a result of mishaps in their parents? beds, versus 400 who were killed by accidents in a crib. These fatalities are separate from so-called crib deaths - or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) - where young children die for no apparent reason. Particularly...