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...could be like Ida Rosenthal. She invented cup sizes back in the 1920s. Warners picked up her idea and decided that most women would fall somewhere between an A and a D. At the time it was a breakthrough. But Mr. Buffett, please, this is such old tech. Are you wearing 80-year-old underwear? Again, no need to answer. But how can it be that in the past eight decades we've gone from measuring by furlongs and pinches to microns and nanoseconds and gigabytes, but we're still sizing bras according to the first few letters...
...assuming it would just enrich manufacturing élites. The lesson of Husker Harvest Days is that modern farmers--at least the ones with most of the land and subsidies--are a new manufacturing élite. They just happen to be manufacturing food and fiber. Production agriculture is a high-tech, globalized business with economies of scale. You don't buy a $410,000 combine to farm the back...
...problem, as epitomized by the tech boom, is that the Street never knows when to turn off the money spigot. A good idea once is a good idea a million times, to the point of excess. In the hunt for ever more profit, everyone gets carried away, ethics and laws are at times breached, and then, ultimately, the collapse comes...
Other Pacemaker winners include the University of Pennsylvania’s Daily Pennsylvanian, The Tech at MIT, and The Collegiate Times of Virginia Tech...
...recipient of the spookalicious invitation, was suspicious of the email. “I thought it was an MIT prank. It’s kind of creepy,†says Sowemimo-Coker. However, there is some validation in receiving an elite (albeit sketchy) invitation to a tech-frat down river. “At least they know where the best girls are,†Bringsjord says. “We are awesome!†Again, Mena could not be reached for comment...