Word: smarts
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...says Stanford business school professor William Barnett. "This sounds like a very smart identity play," he says. "In these kinds of businesses, we see not just an appeal to quality but an appeal to identity and authenticity." Yes, the books at Cody's are probably all available on Amazon, and yes, many of them are also sold, at a discount, by the big chain store around the corner. But just as a small wine bar can thrive by pouring drinks available more cheaply at a liquor store or sports bar, so can a bookstore trade on its cachet of cool...
...article "Biochips For Everyone!", on computer microchips that can be implanted in humans, set off alarm bells [Oct. 24]. While each chip contains a personal ID number that could be scanned like a bar code and provide needed medical data, there is a serious danger. The government or anyone smart enough to hack a security system could end up using biochips to track a person's movements and activity. Should biochips become commonly used, people might then be forced to have them implanted. And if that happened, anyone without a biochip could not function in this society...
LOVE, NEW JERSEY STYLE Is it the parkway fumes? Just Friends, with AMY SMART and RYAN REYNOLDS, is the latest romantic comedy in which a city slicker goes home to Jersey and finds the perfect girl...
...some family crisis at home, many educators attribute a sudden lack of motivation to a fear of failure or peer pressure that conveys the message that doing well academically somehow isn't cool. "Kids get so caught up in the moment-to-moment issue of will they look smart or dumb, and it blocks them from thinking about the long term," says Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford. "[You have to teach them that] they are in charge of their intellectual growth." Over the past couple of years, Dweck has helped run an experimental workshop with New York City...
...industry relies on outdated billing systems that were fine when charging by the minute was standard. Today back-end operations must handle a variety of complex charges, often from third parties, ranging from e-mail services to games, screensavers and other data transactions. As more consumers buy Internet-ready smart phones, and media giants like MTV, Disney, Time Warner and Fox clamor to deliver content to the "third screen," revenue leakage will only get worse. The solution? Mobile carriers need to revamp their back-end systems, ensure real-time authorization of purchases and secure their electronic storefronts. Even then, teens...