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...richest artist alive, the unbearably repetitious and banal Fernando Botero, 69, who has made millions, millions and millions of dollars painting and sculpting mountainously fat people over and over and over again. These sleek, bloated lumps of cellulite have the same appeal to the international nouveau riche that the semi-skeletal poor of Picasso's Blue Period used...
...problem is that ruggedized laptops are often heavy--and pricey. That Rough Rider III runs $5,000. The good news is that manufacturers have begun courting the consumer market. Panasonic, the field leader, now offers so-called semi-ruggeds. The Toughbook 72, introduced last fall with a Pentium III 700-MHz processor, is water-resistant, can survive a 1-ft. drop onto concrete and sells for $2,700. The Toughbook 37 Ultra-Slim--just 1 in. thick and 4.4 lbs.--is around $2,000. Ruggednotebooks' XE-620 runs about $3,000. Other companies in the space: Melard, Itronix and Dolch...
While Panasonic sold five times as many ruggeds as semi-ruggeds a few years ago, now it's selling about equal amounts of the two. There's no doubt a bit of tech machismo is at work: ruggedized laptops exude the same cool as a Land Rover in a suburban driveway or Timberland boots at a backyard barbecue...
...Also on Tuesday, more goat entrails from the chip sector, with the trade group Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (yes, that spells SEMI) announces its July book-to-bill ratio. Watch Intel (whose expected 54-percent price cut on is high-end chips is due on Sunday) and AMD for meaning; analyst sentiment on the sector remains mixed...
...Bonaldo took Price on because he saw pictures of the boats Price made and, since he is in semi-retirement, didn't mind taking the time to help an apprentice. "He liked the idea of teaching someone what he knows," says Price. Though Bonaldo doesn't speak English, the language barrier was not a major obstacle. "It was pretty obvious," Price recalls. "Bonaldo would take a piece of wood and draw a line on it, and I knew I had to cut it there." Price also knew his stuff; he had taken four years off from Berea College in Kentucky...