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...classic new-economy fable: a university student starts a tech firm in Silicon Valley, never bothers to graduate and goes on to make billions. The only difference between that legend and the true story of Mike Lazaridis, founder of Research in Motion (RIM), is that it took Lazaridis about a decade to come up with his killer idea, and when his epiphany did come, it happened in Canada, not California...
...RIM was a little-known company until five years ago, when it launched its BlackBerry, a handheld gadget for writing and receiving secure e-mail. Before that Lazaridis tinkered with industrial displays and developed a fast way to read time codes on film. "We've always been innovative," he says. "Whatever we get involved in, we sink our teeth into." Today the very term BlackBerry is synonymous with wireless e-mail. More than 1 million people use the gizmo, led by a long list of the rich and famous that RIM says includes George W. Bush, Sarah Jessica Parker, George...
...Creek, through a flat expanse of spinifex and low scrub. This Tanami Track, if you had a couple of days to spare, would lead you to Alice Springs, near the center of the continent, but instead the amateur crater hunter turns left into the desert. Twenty km on, the rim comes into view. Its 35-m slopes seem high after a few hours of traveling in only two dimensions, but a brief scramble over the rocks puts you on the lip. A wedge-tailed eagle, glossy black against the sunburnt sky, patrols the circumference in majestic sweeping curves. Chunks...
...would be easy to turn mystical in such a place. Its scale is at once intimate and overwhelming, and standing back on the rim, the shimmering earth spreads endless all around. It is tempting, for a moment, to imagine you are touched by the emotion the crater must have inspired in those who first walked into it, and feel you share that connection with those who have cherished it as a sacred place for more than 40,000 years...
Call Kim Ssang Su a man of the people. On a chilly night in the picturesque mountains south of Seoul, Kim, CEO of LG Electronics Inc., holds aloft a paper cup filled to the rim with soju, a clear, sweet potato-based Korean alcohol with a vicious bite. Surrounding him are a dozen of the 300 LG suppliers' managers whom Kim has spent the day lecturing and rallying. They have also been hiking up a snow-covered mountainside - necessary training, he says, for the grand plans he has for South Korea's second largest electronics firm...