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...climactic (and staged) elephant charge decimates a native village. The more sensational scenes in the picture were projected in "Magnascope", a process which enlarged the size of the image to Imax proportions. (Cooper and Schoedsack went out the way they came in: their last picture together was the 1952 tech spectacle "This Is Cinerama...
...pilgrimage now involves crowds on a scale never seen in history. The Saudis are generally praised for their elaborate, high-tech security and crowd control procedures. They have really sophisticated procedures for moving, housing and feeding some 2 million people, who sometimes are required to move simultaneously over large distances. They really have done a remarkable job of doing what is possible to manage these crowds. But the sheer number of pilgrims makes it almost inevitable that there will be some accidents, and in a crowd that size, accidents generally mean casualties. As one Saudi spokesman pointed out, you have...
When it comes to reading about the economy and your money, it pays not to believe the hype that you read in the press. Everyone has their own interest in mind, and the same person who's trashing tech stocks on CNBC has probably shorted the NASDAQ behind the scenes. What we have now is a small correction, and anyone who says otherwise either knows more than Alan Greenspan--who remains cautiously optimistic-- or has got a horse to sell...
Indeed, Japan and the Internet have gone together like sushi and ketchup. It's still surprising that tech-savvy, gadget-happy Japan sat on the sidelines during the boisterous dotcom boom. (Remember that?) Even today, in Japan, the world's second largest economy, only 625,000 homes have high-speed Internet access, out of a population of 126 million people. PCs never caught on, in part because the first models were ugly and bulky and used keyboards the Japanese aren't comfortable with. "We're keypad people," says DoCoMo's president, Keiji Tachikawa...
...always fully invested in Lucent stock, and a year ago, it was worth $500,000. A brutal 75% slide in Lucent's price in the past 12 months chopped his balance to $130,000. Sadly, Ellis' plight isn't unusual, nor is this solely a tech experience...