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...what did the shake-up mean? Most Silicon Valley analysts took it as a signal that Apple, which lost $69 million in the fourth quarter of last year, had abandoned its behind-the-scenes effort to merge with Sun Microsystems, at least for now. (Sun was reportedly offering a meager $23 a share for Apple stock, which closed last week at 291/4.) "Amelio's history shows that he emphasizes turning around companies, not selling them off," says consultant Tim Bajarin of Santa Clara, California...
...gives the appearance of a fresh start, but Amelio cannot change the fundamentals of the company," says Richard Shaffer, editor of Technologic Partners Newsletter. Apple is trapped as a niche player in the very PC market it helped create, he says. In other words, watch for the ground to shake further...
...neurobiologist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, Turek has devoted two decades of his life to studying this naturally occurring substance produced by the pineal gland. He feels certain that it functions as the body's own safe and highly effective sleeping potion. But lately Turek can't shake the feeling that the world has gone melatonin mad. Based on the flimsiest scientific evidence, the subject of his research is now being trumpeted in books and magazines and on television as a cure for everything from autism to aging to schizophrenia to a humdrum sex life...
...have been one of the slogans of the United Auto Workers in their 17-month strike against Caterpillar. Since the strike ended in early December, the firm has forbidden incendiary slogans like "Families in Solidarity" and suspended dozens of union employees for infractions as tiny as failing to shake a foreman's hand with sufficient alacrity. A 52-year-old worker who failed to peel union stickers off his toolbox fast enough was threatened with loss of retirement benefits...
...other significant shake-up resulting from the reorganization is the dismissal of nine employees at RCS and the scaling back of that office's services...