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...rapidly emerging. For example, Motorola, Capgemini and Delphi are all setting up R&D centers in Krakow, Poland. Companies accustomed to keeping their R&D operations at home may end up missing important opportunities, says Spelman, because innovation is no longer confined to traditional research havens such as Silicon Valley. He points out that 12% of all nanotechnology patents are now held in China-an indication that cutting-edge technologies are increasingly being developed in new markets...
...show host, she is also a member of the Royal Household Wine Committee, which chooses the wines that the Queen serves her guests. Robinson's advice is impeccable, her wit dry and her take on wine refreshingly non-American. Recommending the Montes Reserve Sauvignon Blanc 2005 Casablanca Valley from Chile, she describes it as "quintessentially an aperitif, but if you were to drink it with a well-dressed salad, it would not rise up and bite...
These are boom times in the Biz Et industry. Although businesses have become increasingly informal in dress and attitude over the past two decades, thanks in part to Silicon Valley, the greater corporate world hasn't completely lost its desire for a bit of decorum and savoir faire. In fact, it insists on it, one reason that some law and financial firms have reverted to suits and ties for men. Etiquette isn't easy for the generation that wears flip-flops on Fridays or closes billion-dollar deals in Denny's, as YouTube and Google famously did. So business schools...
...cannot use the 21,500 troops. During the next two years, Iraq's breakup will occur with or without us. Baghdad will inexorably fall to the Shi'a. "They get the big bonanza," as one Sunni bitterly put it. Anbar, Ramadi, Fallujah and much of the upper Euphrates Valley are practically a solid Sunni green now. There are still mixed towns and provinces here and there, but it's just a matter of time before their minorities pick up and leave for the security of their...
...Faust, raised in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, has devoted her scholarly career to the study of the South—with particular attention to issues of gender and race...