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...manufacturer and marketer, the CEO of Dell Computer could hardly be less enamored of tech gadgetry. His company is seldom first with a new feature or peripheral device. What excites him is cramming more processors into a server chassis or clustering a group of low-priced servers to do the work of a mainframe. He makes no apologies for sticking to the strategy he dreamed up 17 years ago in his dorm room at the University of Texas to beat IBM: sell directly to the customer and concentrate on value. "It worked then. Thing is, it works better...
...Associated Press top-25 poll. For those to whom the link is not readily apparent, an explanation: earlier this season, UCLA lost to USC. Since then, the Trojans have lost to Fresno State, who lost to Wake Forest, who lost to Syracuse, who lost to Georgia Tech. Penn beat the Yellow Jackets, and, at least until the two teams square off again in Philadelphia, Harvard has Penn’s number...
...champion Princeton, who had been the weaker of the two “killer P’s” during non-conference play. Penn, on the other hand, was (and still is) the feel-good mid-major story of the year. Its victories over big-time programs Georgia Tech, Iowa State, Villanova and Temple, along with close losses to Illinois and St. Joe’s, had given the Quakers national celebrity and even a few votes in the Associated Press Top 25 poll...
...high-tech, hard-to-forge driver's license could become a national E-ZPass, a way for a law-abiding citizen to move faster through the roadblocks of post-9/11 life...
...high-tech, hard-to-forge driver's license could become a national E-ZPass, a way for a law-abiding citizen to move faster through the roadblocks of post-9/11 life. It's no digitalized Supercard, but the states would have uniform standards, using bar codes and biometrics (a unique characteristic, like a palm print) and could cross-check and get information from other law-enforcement agencies. Polls show 70% of Americans support an even more stringent ID. But Japanese-American members of Congress and Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta are keenly sensitive to anything that might single...