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...Taiwan's electronics makers thrive in anonymity, however. The relentless decline in tech hardware prices is putting pressure on the bottom line?profit margins on a Taiwan-made notebook PC, for example, have fallen by half, to 5%, over the past three years. Caught in the big squeeze, Taiwan's tech companies "can't just fly under the radar anymore," says Flint Pulskamp, an electronics analyst at consulting firm IDC in San Mateo, California. "If they're going to survive, they need to step out and get recognition for their brands...
...inside out, his models sported jackets of wrinkled linen and cheeks shadowed by whiskers. Says the designer in retrospect: "It evokes something tender, rather than a polished, sharp look." It took almost ten years for the look to travel from Milan to Miami, but while Johnson and Vice flash thrive, stubble will surely survive...
...first Abraham escapes Roman soldiers. He flees to Alexandria with his sons, who thrive until a civil war inflames the population. His grandson ventures to Rome, where persecutions resume; a few chapters later, a descendant is in North Africa, courting the daughter of a Jewish Berber. The holders of the scroll move to Spain, to Narbonne, to Italy and Salonika, Holland and Paris and Poland, where the final chapter is inscribed in ashes...
...great-great-great-great-grandfather. Joseph de Graft, a Dutch slave trader and an ancestor of Eshun's on his mother's side, settled in Ghana in the 1750s and married a local chief's daughter. When De Graft left for the Netherlands, his slave-trading business continued to thrive, maintained by his oldest son. "What's it like to discover your ancestor was a slave trader?" he writes. "The disgust is overpowering. You cannot stop thinking about the men and women he sold on to the ships. And whether the responsibility for his actions runs through your blood." Eventually...
...genes contained in a sample of earth, air or water. Just this past April, scientists from the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a Department of Energy lab in Walnut Creek, Calif., announced in the journal Science that they had for the first time identified the unique mixes of microbes that thrive in different sorts of ecosystems. In farm soil, for example, there are any number of genes that produce substances that break down plant material--rotting genes, you might call them. In seawater, by contrast, there are very few rotting genes but lots of genes that process salts. By understanding...