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...with generous tax incentives. Most of the public, though, isn't buying. And people who do often have memorable experiences. A quarter-century ago, the owners of a 13-story, 64-unit co-op at 924 West End Avenue on New York City's Upper West Side erected a steel framework on the rooftop, welded it to the building's steel beams and attached 117 solar-collector panels. Water heated by the sun flowed through pipes into a 5,000-gal. storage tank in the building's old coal bin and from there into the building's hot-water system...
...Julius Caesar. Picture this momentous turning point of the French Revolution, punctuated by "possibly the greatest anticlimax in all history ... a decrepit old boy saying ... 'Did you know I came, I saw and I conquered?'" Ba-da-bum. O.K., it might not generate the laughs author Mark Steel gets in his stand-up routine, but that's not what he's trying to do in his new book, Vive La Revolution: A Stand-Up History of the French Revolution. Rather than regale readers with jokes, Steel aims to present the history of a serious subject leavened with irreverent observations...
...wide—with rolling suitcases and portable e-mail terminals in tow—but they were drawn together by a common desire: to experience the ultimate techno-geek dream. As the hundreds of thousands of attendees of CeBit America 2003 entered the massive glass and steel lobby of the Jacob Javits Conference Center on Manhattan’s West Side, they were accosted by signs and logos of companies from Xerox to Siemens and prompted by convention staff to register at the appropriate bank of LCD panel kiosks...
...event without at least one bag with a giant vendor logo filled to the brim with such items, which one can then distribute to friends and family as birthday and holiday gifts. If your significant other asks what the “3-Com” on the stainless steel coffee mug means, just tell them it’s your new pet name for them...
...show was undoubtedly NTT DoCoMo, the national phone company of Japan. The company does not sell its products in the U.S. marketplace, but their presence at the show was still an apparent must. The giant booth, which resembled a spaceship constructed of fluorescent green plastic and brushed steel, was lit up so that its glow radiated upon its neighbors. Inside, attractive women dressed in leather miniskirts and high heels showcased the latest in video cell phone and mobile e-mail technology now used in Japan. When I had a question they could not answer, I was walked over...