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...seem to mind being dragged around by their bouncing, panting, ranting offspring, who beg and plead for a $70 miniature tepee or $38 Victorian commode. The genius behind American Girl's high-end products is that moms feel good about dropping a lot of cash on low-tech, wholesome Americana. Most of the dolls depict 9year-old fictional heroines at various points in American history, including Kaya, a Nez Perce tribe member in 1764, and Josefina, a Latina on hand for the opening of the Santa Fe Trail. The company also sells six novels about each of the historical dolls...
...TECH: A Jetsonian test kitchen; Dell's answer to iPod; laptop 3-D without the funny glasses...
...watch or a car. Elected to the city's board of supervisors during the dotcom boom, Gonzalez (who was a Democrat until he became disillusioned with the party's campaign tactics in 2000) helped lead the charge against upscale real estate development to house the high-tech rich. But he still manages to charm campaign contributions out of two of the city's biggest developers. He promises to make San Francisco a "laboratory for what government will look like under Green leadership." So far, that appears to be a pledge not to be like the incumbent mayor, Willie Brown...
...digital economies of developing ones? "In the south, it's going to be wireless, more mobile and more affordable too," says Richard Fuchs of the International Development Research Centre. He also notes that "the information economy is moving east," to countries like India and China , which are finding tech solutions that work for them. China last month chose Linux's operating system for a million computers - with 199 million more to follow. That's a no-brainer, not a snub of Microsoft Windows. Open-source software like Linux is easily modified for Asian languages, cost-free and quickly being adopted...
...California. Kleiner, who fled his native Austria in 1938, co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957, which developed a technique for mass producing silicon transistors. Fifteen years later, he helped establish the venture-capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, which gave seed money to more than 300 companies, including many tech powerhouses...