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...exist a little more than a decade ago are running rings around the 78-year-old behemoth. And even worse, IBM has been bogged down by endless rounds of painful restructurings and cutbacks. "IBM is no longer the monolithic monster that strikes fear in the hearts of competitors," says Ulric Weil, a leading computer consultant. "It has proved to be quite mortal after...
...Quebec, where the unemployment rate is 14%, the constitutional fight over the role of the province within Canada today borders on the irrelevant, compared with economic concerns. "Quebec sovereignty is all well and good," says Mayor Ulric Blackburn of the St. Lawrence River town of Chicoutimi, which was once solidly separatist, "but we're a little tired of that battle when jobs are really what matter." Quebec's 55.4% rejection of the constitutional agreement produced quite the opposite of political ferment. "After all these years of debates, referenda and what have you, what are we left with?" asks Louise...
Consider the Challenger explosion. As with the assassination of John F. Kennedy, most people claim to remember where they were when they heard the news of the shuttle disaster. Ulric Neisser, a psychologist at Emory University, tested that assumption. The day after the 1986 accident he asked 106 students to write down how, when and where they learned the news. Three years later, he tracked down nearly half the group and asked them to describe their memories of the explosion. Though many claimed to recall it clearly, "often the memories were completely wrong," says Neisser. Many students said they...
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