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...automobile and the motion-picture camera: these are the two machines that most influenced the shape and speed of 20th century culture. Both were transporting devices. One got Americans out of their neighborhoods; the other, out of themselves. At the dawn of the 21st century, what miracle have these machines combined to bring the world? Car-chase movies...
...Hawg" at the beginning of the short story, "The Mighty Kingdom of Shrimpy-Ub." His motivation for doing so, on a rug in the middle of his living room, remains unspoken, as do the origins of the ritual. His roommate Paul, who has a similar wiener-like shape, but taller and with a nose, lips and pronounced nipples, cocks his eyebrow in bafflement. The dance seems connected to the little Ib-Ubs, tiny four-legged creatures who begin erecting small towers on the floor using the bricks that shoot out of their snout. Thus ensconced in his living-room kingdom...
...Dallas, with 28 outlets in 15 markets, "Our product selection is pretty wide: it's small, it's big, it's wire, it's solid, and it would be extraordinarily confusing if it weren't presented in an organized way," says chairman Garrett Boone. His solution: a U-shape layout that "allows people to pass all the departments in the store, both on the sides and in the center." Ikea, based in Helsingborg, Sweden, directs shoppers around its vast showrooms on preset paths but also allows them to circumvent the traffic pattern with strategically placed "cut-throughs." Customers like them...
...where shopping is hassle free. Outdoor equipment retailer REI, based in Kent, Wash., makes smart use of technology, according to Forrester's Delhagen, by placing computer kiosks on its sales floor that allow the customer to search its entire inventory. "The store can't carry every size and shape of tent stake," Delhagen says, "so an associate will walk you over and find you the one you need." The lesson for retailers: don't fall in love with new technology unless your customers get to play with...
...December the league signed a 10-year collective-bargaining agreement with its players that includes revenue sharing and a salary cap of $1.64 million a team. (The typical AFL player earns about $40,000, versus $1.1 million in the National Football League.) "We're in pretty good shape right now," says Casey Wasserman, owner of the AFL's Los Angeles Avengers, who share the Staples Center with the basketball Lakers. And, Wasserman adds, "it all starts with Dave...