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Kevin Ashton's obsession with RFID began with a single shade of lipstick. When he launched Oil of Olay's ColorMoist Hazelnut No. 650 at Procter & Gamble in 1997, it was popular--too popular. "Four in 10 stores couldn't keep the item on the shelf," says Ashton, "and we were losing money because of it." He needed to track this item and others through the supply chain so clerks would know when to reorder and replenish the shelves. It took Ashton a year to identify RFID as a technology that would solve his problem and to hook up with...
However, if Harvard can come away with at least one win this weekend, its place in Division I’s top shelf will be apparent...
...rather not talk about it. Russian scientists have been offering various projects for handling the issue, but there is no financing." As well as the potential harm to fishermen, says the panel's chairman, Vladimir Grachev, "danger is involved in laying gas pipes and communication cables on the sea shelf." Branick was lucky. "I only got hit by the water that had been in contact with the gas. If I had touched the gas itself, I can't imagine what it would have been like." Like their governments, Baltic fishermen are learning to live with the danger...
Late in summer the bounteous season, fills both the larder and the comix shelf. One year ago TIME.comix did a roundup of interesting anthology books and this season has produced another crop. This time we focus on the products of a burgeoning trend in comix: small, boutique publishers who have found the gospel of production values. Presses like Avodah and AdHouse are now giving lush, full-color, square-bound, heavy-paper-stock treatment to those artists who only recently knew only photocopy carbon and staples. Leapfrogging comix into the realm of fine arts, this new attention to the aesthetics...
...might have to let sports take a back seat for a while. Is classical music in crisis? With young talents like these bursting through, it's hard to be too pessimistic. The industry will never achieve pop's massive sales, but it continues to produce great artists with long shelf lives and tidy profit potential. And they don't have to wear wet T shirts or simulate sex with their instruments to do it. Official Website: www.jonathanlemalu.com