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What?s in this for Bill Gates? Plenty, although you wouldn?t know it from Microsoft research veep Rick Rashid, who told the Associated Press, "Microsoft views education as one of the great frontiers where information-based service and advanced technology can improve people?s lives." Lofty sentiments aside, Microsoft researchers will have access to MIT's facilities and the brainpower of its faculty and students, and, most important, will also get first options on patent innovations arising from the project...
Maybe Michael Jordan wouldn't have retired if he had known it would come to this. Six years after his eponymous restaurant opened in Chicago, it is being renamed, and redesigned, to honor the city's latest athletic hero, Cubs player SAMMY SOSA. The restaurant's owners (Jordan is not among them) claim business has abated since the former MVP is no longer on the court and only rarely at a table. New figurehead Sosa has agreed to dine regularly on the premises, which when they are officially rechristened next year, will feature Caribbean cuisine and a statue...
...technology," Kathwari says. "I saw that it could improve every element of our business." But first Kathwari had to finish a four-year project to integrate the computer systems at all Ethan Allen stores, 70% of which are privately owned. He also needed to convince store owners that they wouldn't be hurt by the new site, which he will do by crediting a fraction of each online sale to the Ethan Allen store of the customer's choice. Now that the site is built, the question is, Will the customers come...
...lowered expectations. "It?s not Reagan?s ?Star Wars,' which was space-based," he says. "This is the so-called ?thin shield,? which consists of a smaller amount of interceptors [100] from a single site, rather than a full umbrella. Technically, it?s easier to build, but it also wouldn?t defend against a full-scale assault...
...political momentum for this right now," says Thompson, "to ignore the Russians, scrap the whole treaty and start building the system." And there?s a certain logic to that - when it comes to nuclear defense, all or nothing always trumps a compromise. "One site in Alaska means the system wouldn?t work as well against Iran," Thompson says. President Reagan, who rode the Iran hostage crisis to election and bluffed the Soviets with big-idea Star Wars, would have appreciated that...