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...industrial conglomerate better known for toilet paper and tires into a $20 billion global telecom powerhouse, what sticks with you is his charming knack for understatement. "We've done pretty well," Ollila says, kicking back in his chair inside Nokia's Espoo headquarters, a modern construct of glass and steel towering over the Gulf of Finland six miles west of Helsinki. You'd think he was talking about his tennis game...
...legal system may be the last refuge of doomed business models. When Big Steel and the auto industry were under pressure during the '70s from low-cost imports, their first instinct was not to change their outmoded manufacturing plants but to beseech the courts to bar the outlanders. The record industry has taken a similar tack, charging the purveyors of digital music with violating copyright law and Fair Use agreements. But even favorable rulings like the one the Record Industry Association of America won in district court against popular music website MP3.com provide only temporary respite. Sooner or later...
...these forces are liberating. Blue-collar robots took the grunt work out of factory and warehouse and dockside. The same will happen to white-collar work. Just as workin' the line at U.S. Steel was no walk in the park in 1946, passing papers in the tower is no great joy. My dad did it for 41 years at the Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. He was, sad to say, a white-collar indentured servant...
...Trapp children, is a bright, spunky, dark-haired wisp who suffers from a degenerative muscular condition. She lives in a wheelchair or bed, is tied to a respirator at least eight hours a day, eats mostly through a tube and requires round-the-clock nursing care. Doctors have implanted steel rods in her back to stem the curvature of her spine...
With these magnificent craft, the Norse searched far and wide for goods they couldn't get at home: silk, glass, sword-quality steel, raw silver and silver coins that they could melt down and rework. In return they offered furs, grindstones, Baltic amber, walrus ivory, walrus hides and iron...