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...middle age, eclipsed by India's globally wired I.T. giants like Wipro and Infosys as exemplars of India's economic future. Still, Ambani seems destined to be remembered as a folk hero?an example of what a man from one of India's poor villages can accomplish with non-shrink ambition...
...lyrics and complex composition shine. The rest of the time he jumps between faux radio skits and crass, attention-seeking covers. Wyclef thinks anything he touches is interesting, but some things, like his hideous update of December, 1963 (Oh What a Night), are best left in shrink wrap. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...shading. Instead, David B. puts the visual richness into mixing the literal with the metaphorical. Anything goes with comix. It's partly what makes them special. Freed from literal representation, the artist's only obligation is to meaning and David B. takes full advantage of this. People grow and shrink, or occasionally appear as animals. Backgrounds become patterns that reflect the mood of the scene rather than the location. One remarkable panel shows Jean-Christofe's head surrounded by a knot of tubes and two tiny doctors plugging them into his skull. Demons, monsters and ghosts become an integral part...
...intelligence researchers have gained some of their most useful insights from experts in brain function. And today the biological sciences are making similar contributions to all sorts of technologies useful to business, from software that "grows," "heals" and "reproduces" to tiny carbon tubes that will allow computer transistors to shrink to atomic dimensions even as they grow more powerful...
Ardesta, the Ann Arbor venture-capital firm and self-styled "accelerator" of small technologies, has raised about $100 million in capital to nurture companies such as Discera, which is trying to shrink key cell-phone components onto a square-centimeter microchip, and Sensicore, which develops products that analyze water and blood. "I would tell you we are talking about this as a revolution," says Malhotra, "but I view nanotechnology as an evolution...