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...cutter products spewed from assembly lines in central factories; entertainment and ideas were broadcast from big studios and publishers. Now products can be individualized. Need steel that's tailored for your needs? Some high-tech mini-mill will provide it. Prefer opinions different from those on this page? A thousand Webzines and personalized news products are waiting to connect with...
...pace of the computer industry with the confident aplomb of fashion designers raising or lowering hemlines. It's the sort of ironfisted market grip that rarely exists outside economics textbooks: one superefficient firm with monopoly-like returns gliding past competitors and, not incidentally, racking up huge profits. (Ten thousand dollars invested in Intel on the morning of Bill Clinton's first Inauguration would be worth nearly $90,000 today...
...inducted into a formidable course of monastic studies. By the age of six he was choosing his own regent, and by the time he was 11 he was weathering a civil uprising. The Dalai Lama has written with typical warmth about his unworldly boyhood in the cold, dark, thousand-room Potala Palace, playing games with the palace sweepers, rigging up a hand-cranked projector on which he could watch Tarzan movies and Henry V, and clobbering his only real playmate--his immediate elder brother Lobsang Samten--serene in the knowledge that no one would readily punish a boy regarded...
Sugar: Now Much Sweeter Than You Here comes a sugar rush that's eight thousand times more powerful. And there's no calories...
...years of dominance by the internal-combustion engine, a new kind of automobile is on the way. Several major auto manufacturers are designing hybrid electric cars that have twice the fuel economy and half the carbon-dioxide emissions of today's vehicles. The sticker price is admittedly a few thousand dollars higher but is largely offset by lower fuel bills. Toyota plans to bring the first such car to the market in Japan this week, and other carmakers will soon follow suit (see following story...