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...Rocco DiSpirito scoots into a banquette next to me, I ask if he minds if I tape-record the interview. "Not at all," he says as a cameraman aims his video rifle at us and another crewman lowers a boom mike over our table. "Do you mind if I record your recording...
Unlike giant defense contractors, many extreme-sports-gear companies are privately held and can't afford to hire Washington lobbyists or navigate the thickets of red tape involved in bidding for government contracts. Instead, they're getting their gear into military exchanges and booking sales to individual troops who want the equipment and pay for it out of their pockets. Army soldiers and Marines, for instance, are allowed to buy a handheld global positioning system, or GPS, unit (shown above) or sweat-wicking T shirts to wear under their fatigues...
...morning of April 6, Nada Yunis was watching an Iraqi television broadcast of a tape of Saddam Hussein meeting with his son Qusay and a small group of top advisers in what looked like someone's home. On the wall behind Saddam were maps of Iraq, marked in heavy felt pen, that appeared to indicate troop deployments. Yunis recognized the melon-colored curtains and ruffled white drapes, the design of the stone floor, the geometric pattern on the empty chair next to Qusay, even some water damage on one of the walls. Saddam, she realized, was sitting in her living...
Occasionally it's a little more serious. There was the FORTUNE 500 executive from Kansas City, Kans., who called on a Friday afternoon: the server with all his company's financial information had died, and the backup tape turned out to be blank. He was on the next plane to San Francisco with the server's hard drive--and while crossing the Golden Gate Bridge thought to himself, "If this doesn't work out, it's a one-way trip." This required a step beyond data-crisis counseling. While engineers took the executive's drive apart and got it spinning...
...checkout technology, which should be fully online by this summer. A cash outlay isn't the only answer or even the best one. Jim Dion notes that in the Midwest, Jewel grocery stores, a division of Albertson's, have their cashiers circle the preferred-customer savings on the register tape before handing it to the shopper. "Nice little touch," Dion says approvingly. "Maybe they could add to that a sincere 'thank you,' which would be nice. But they didn't when I was there." The way his voice falls before adding the afterthought says a lot about the frustrations...