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...articles over time, just as free open-source software like Linux and Firefox is more robust than for-profit competitors because thousands of amateur programmers get to look at the code and suggest changes. It's the same principle that New Yorker writer James Surowiecki asserted in his best seller The Wisdom of Crowds: large groups of people are inherently smarter than an élite...
...star among the burgeoning ranks of lawyers turned best-selling novelists. Devil's Corner (HarperCollins; 393 pages), her 12th book, will arrive in bookstores on May 31, and in light of the advance orders at Amazon.com it is well on its way to becoming her seventh best seller...
Americans still seem to love one thing about the French, which is why the diet book French Women Don't Get Fat became a best seller. But when the book is released in France this fall, the reaction is likely to be more skeptical. Experts there are increasingly concerned about France's weight problem. A recent book by politician Jean-Marie Le Guen, Obesity: A New French Illness, notes that women in France, like women everywhere else, do get fat because they have less time to shop for fresh produce and are wolfing down more processed foods. Over the past...
...flagship TV brand dubbed Aquos?and his bet paid off. Launched in January 2001?a moment referred to inside the company as "the Big Bang"?Aquos quickly became the coolest name in TVs since the Sony Trinitron in the late 1960s. Sharp is now the world's biggest seller of LCD televisions, accounting for one in four of all the LCD sets sold globally each year. And while almost every other Asian electronics manufacturer has been hit lately by plummeting prices and oversupply, Sharp continues to gather momentum. Last week, Sony reported a loss of $320 million in its consumer...
HIRED. NICK LEESON, 38, former expatriate banker in Singapore who brought about the collapse of the U.K.'s Barings Bank in 1995; as commercial manager of soccer club Galway United; in Galway, Ireland. Leeson, whose autobiography Rogue Trader became a best seller and was made into a movie starring Ewan McGregor, has been in demand as a speechmaker since his release from prison in 1999. The Galway appointment is his first new job in a decade...