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...saw my first real appgazine one day in downtown San Francisco, at Adobe, a company whose software dominates the production side of the publishing industry. Chief technology officer Kevin Lynch held in his hands a mobile Internet device made by a Chinese company called Aigo. This model, already on the market in Asia, has an easily readable touchscreen. But more interesting than how it looked was the software it was running - Adobe...
...battle, documenting the interiors of their foxholes and bunkers. Some also painted furiously to preserve the landscape as it looked before the bombs and napalm. Nguyen Thanh Chau liked to capture the beauty of pink lotuses, malachite melaleuca trees and turquoise marshes under a lapis lazuli sky. "Whenever I saw a beautiful landscape, I forgot about the danger and stood up to draw," he writes...
...heard about the fantasy tournament from her husband and won $100,000. The million-dollar winner, a Minnesota man named Michael Thompson, had been out of work for more than a year before fishing saved him. Now he's the face of fantasy fishing: Thompson says he just saw a cardboard cutout of himself at a boat show...
...stressed-out talent: "It's not good for the bottom line," she says, "and it's not good for individuals." The Harvard Business Review looked at a survey of what happened in companies that went through layoffs of even 1% of the workforce: among the surviving workers, they typically saw a 31% increase in turnover. Bigger layoffs led to even higher turnover. Top performers always have options--and, Hewlett notes, women are twice as likely as men to voluntarily walk away, not dropping out but finding a safer haven. What worries her is that when the smoke clears, there...
...down cacao to plant faster-yielding banana trees. "They destroy the forest forever," Rosenberg complains, pointing to a hole in one of his plantation's barbed-wire fences. Jorge Redmond, president of Chocolates El Rey, a Venezuelan company that has been processing premium cacao since 1929, says El Rey saw almost 865 acres (350 hectares) decimated recently when 40 families invaded. "A 10-year effort was destroyed in days," he says. "We were able to produce one batch of San Joaquin Private Reserve chocolate before this happened, but we will never taste that chocolate again. It was an incredible chocolate...