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Hollywood and Silicon Valley have never mixed well. You've got cinéastes vs. nerds, celluloid vs. digital, silicone vs. silicon. Then there is Pixar, the delightfully confounding combination of the two: part high-tech shop, part movie studio. Headed by Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and run by John Lasseter, an animator hailed as the next Walt Disney, Pixar has made exactly six computer-animated features in its 20-year history, from Toy Story to The Incredibles. Every one was a smash. Every one was distributed by Disney, which also shared costs and profits...
...Yahoo!. The project's chief selling point is said to be a revolutionary capability to search as well as translate audio and video sources. But details are scarce: Thomson, the French company heading the endeavor, even shut down its website last week after details of the potential services set tech tongues wagging. A source who wouldn't go on record because negotiations on funding are continuing - unconfirmed reports put the initial bill at €1-2 billion - would only say that Quaero will go beyond Google in its ability to dig into the content of multimedia files. But the source...
...cases, a subtle change in the pattern of bodily noises can alert your physician to problems long before symptoms appear. Unfortunately, the art of auscultation, the technical term for listening to those sounds, is slowly dying. Seasoned physicians complain that their younger colleagues are simply more comfortable ordering high-tech--and more costly--computerized scans to make diagnoses...
...that you won't lose money. Pick a plan that has a range of investments, from stocks to a money-market fund or other cashlike option, so that you can move into safer securities as your kids get older. (In other words, you shouldn't be loaded up on tech stocks when Junior is, well, a high school junior.) Most plans you buy directly (i.e., without a financial adviser) include age-based portfolios. That means the fund company decides how you should be investing at each stage and automatically redistributes your assets...
Floyd Isley, 65, a former Air Force pilot and now a semiretired high-tech consultant in Carlsbad, Calif., and wife Dianna, 61, a retired nurse, haven't any qualms about shelling out whatever it takes. "We're enjoying the fruits of our labor," Dianna says. The couple recently spent $1,500 for massages on a weeklong getaway. They visit a day spa once a week near their home. "We like the deep-tissue massages that really help ease any physical discomfort," Dianna says. "It's our therapy for stress and anxiety...