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Dates: during 2000-2009
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warren Buffett, Adjust My Bra | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Our Farm Policy Is Failing | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

Other Pacemaker winners include the University of Pennsylvania’s Daily Pennsylvanian, The Tech at MIT, and The Collegiate Times of Virginia Tech...

Author: By Lindsay P. Tanne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Snags Top Paper Prize | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theta Delta Why? | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

From the moment he took the stage in the Washington Hilton's International Ballroom, Huckabee was in his element. The Arkansas contingent in the front of the hall went nuts, waving low-tech H-U-C-K-A-B-E-E placards. Unlike the other candidates, Huckabee was greeted by a standing ovation throughout the entire cavernous room. He settled in behind the lectern as if it were a pulpit, greeting the crowd "not as one who comes to you, but as one who comes from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Huckabee's Bid for the Christian Right | 10/22/2007 | See Source »

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