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...tragedy of Apple is, of course, well known. Jobs, a young visionary, and his older, nerdier pal, Steve Wozniak, created the first true personal computer in 1976. But while Apple established and dominated the early market for computers and software - creating a record for "fastest start-up to reach the Fortune 500" - it rapidly lost the market. The rise of the IBM-compatible PC a decade later, which ran Microsoft's operating system, smashed Apple. The key to the PC's success and Apple's downfall was that the open-standards-based IBM-compatible PC created a platform for third...
...Although his enormous fund-raising still gives Obama more routes to the White House than McCain, the contracting playing field does narrow the Democrat's potential paths to the presidency. Now that a northern front - including Alaska, Montana and North Dakota - looks out of reach, Obama has four central ways...
...something out in a proper trashcan doesn't mean it simply disappears. Though America's landfills are in no danger of filling up any time soon, taking out the trash is increasingly costly, with major cities like New York now having to truck their garbage hundreds of miles to reach an open dumping space. That means energy and carbon emissions. Chameides decided to begin his year of no trash after he visited his community's landfill. "It's nearly 40 miles away, and they have 13,000 tons of trash coming in every day," he says. "It's going...
...purpose of this report is to try to stimulate discussion and to try to reach consensus,” he said. “And any time you try to reach consensus, you’re not going to really stir things up, you’re not going to make waves, you’re not going to do something really bold...
...Holyoke Street), and Topaz (11 Dunster Street) opened. Passport sells travel clothing and accessories; Looks sells women’s clothing; and Topaz offers women’s jewelry and gifts, The store owners said that their goals are both to sell elegant and homey objects and to reach out to a broad type of consumers. The owners, many of them young entrepreneurs, named the Square’s commercial and high-traffic environment as the allure that drew them here and said that they hope to bring individuality to shoppers in Cambridge. Topaz said the store sells jewelry starting...