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Which clues are real? It's not enough to "bag and tag" everything at a crime scene. The trick is to figure out what's important. If, for example, a wife is suspected of killing her husband in their bedroom, virtually all trace evidence in the room-fibers, hairs, fingerprints-could be useless. Proving that the wife was in her own room probably won't help the case...
...that can make or break a company - and in this case broke it. In late 1997, the Belgian airline Sabena was poised to order 17 new Airbus planes, to renew and expand its fleet of 37. At the last minute, the order mysteriously doubled to 34 aircraft. The price tag would be $1 billion - five times the company's entire capital at the time. Even more surprisingly, Sabena's board of directors had neither a business plan justifying the higher number nor a watertight financing arrangement in place when they approved the deal. The order strained Sabena's already precarious...
...Viking and Wolf and Sub-Zero, has been reinforced by the shift of such traditional makers as Whirlpool, Maytag, GE and Amana into professional-quality gear and by a changed appearance in the everyday American kitchen. "Everyone is striving for a commercial look," says Tommy Genussa, president of TAG Homes Inc. in New Orleans. "That means stainless-steel appliances. Even in modest homes, the movement is toward as much stainless steel as possible...
Rather than arousing our indignation at big tobacco, money-hungry litigation distracts us from the nefarious practices most in need of reform. As greedy copycats line up for a piece of the pie, the truly effective collective suits may suffer an undeserved fallout. No matter how big the price tag looks, if collective action falls by the wayside, tobacco companies will have won without even trying...
...pioneer a new Silicon-Valley in Boston one day, but until then, I’ll settle for an online study card filing system here in Cambridge. As much fun as it is to bubble in the numbers, I can live without the perennial rush for signatures. E-mail tag and sprints to emergency office hours were not the kinds of student-faculty interaction I had in mind when I chose starred seminars from the Courses of Instruction...