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Ostensibly, Once Upon a Time in Mexico is about all the standard action-movie stuff--drug cartels, an assassination plot, revenge killings. Been there, done that a thousand times. But really it's an exercise in style by Robert Rodriguez and not to be taken any more (or less) seriously than his giddy Spy Kids movies...
...with the company's editor and publisher, created Richie Rich, the "poor little rich boy" introduced in 1953 who became Harvey's most popular character; in Glen Ridge, N.J. During his 35 years at Harvey, Kremer painted countless comic-book covers and helped develop such other characters as Hot Stuff and Casper the Friendly Ghost...
...Unilever. Ashton estimates that U.S. retail giants alone lose up to $70 billion a year in potential revenue because of their labyrinthine backroom networks. Half of that loss results from failure to restock popular items. The rest comes from lost or stolen items (shrinkage, in the parlance), particularly stuff like Gillette's Mach 3 razor blades and Duracell batteries--possibly the two most frequently stolen items in the world. (If you doubt it, look at all the Mach 3 blades selling on eBay, says Ashton.) What if a retailer could always know the whereabouts of every razor blade? The Accenture...
Manufacturers and retailers are moving forward with RFID for backroom logistics. In June Wal-Mart CIO Linda Dillman gave the firm's 100 top suppliers--which provide half the goods on its shelves--a veiled ultimatum about the stuff flowing into its 103 U.S. distribution centers. Vendors who don't use EPC codes on pallets and cases by 2005 could risk losing business. "By 2006, we'd like to roll it out with all our suppliers," says spokesman Tom Williams. Wal-Mart, which did much the same with the bar code, has admitted there is no timeline for RFID-tagging...
...told state-run media. Ultimately, he even hopes China can colonize other planets, although he expects it will take "some 200 years to reconstruct Mars to make it suitable to sustain human life." This is China's Great Leap Skyward. As an emergent Middle Kingdom increasingly struts its stuff on the international stage, Beijing wants to back up its claim to the mandate of heaven by going there. Of late, China has shown its global power by nudging North Korea into negotiations to end its nuclear weapons program, attending a Group of Eight meeting of the world's capitalist powers...