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California Oversteps with HDTV RegulationsFri Nov 20th, 2009
Mike Schuster What can a state government do to decrease energy consumption among a population that has doubled since 1970 but maintains the lowest per-capita rate of electricity use in the country? That's right: |
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Five Things: Social Mood Fuels the China BullWed Nov 18th, 2009
Kevin Depew Social Mood Fuels the China Bull"China, despite its 5,000-year burden of history, has emerged as a dynamo of optimism, experimentation and growth," enthuses a Time magazine piece about Chin |
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Exxon: Slick, Slimy, and DangerousWed Nov 18th, 2009
Ryan Goldberg Editors Note: Welcome to Love It or Hate It, a regular dual-column feature that will capture the love-hate relationship America has with some of its biggest, most controversial companies. For past co |
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Product Envy: The Stuff We Want But Can't HaveThu Nov 5th, 2009
Jim Sutherland In a world as globalized as ours, it's hard to believe that there are drool-worthy products out there that you can't buy at the mall downtown, or anywhere in the country. But they exist.Take Coke. Su |
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Why Cypress Semi's Chip Is a Game ChangerMon Oct 19th, 2009
Bob Faulkner Have you wished that back in the middle of 2003, you'd recognized that the economy was recovering, and that when Apple’s (AAPL) new Macs and iPods were starting to fly off the shelves, you'd pu |
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As Seen on TV: Lost's DHARMA InitiativeWed Oct 14th, 2009
Mike Schuster Except for maybe Guiding Light, ABC's (DIS) Lost has the largest, most complex storyline of any modern serialized drama. In just five seasons, creators Jeffrey Lieber, J.J. Abrams, and Damon Lindelof |
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As Seen On TV: Buy N Large / Wal-MartWed Oct 14th, 2009
Mike Schuster At the risk of restating a sentiment voiced by almost everyone who's seen it, Pixar's (DIS) WALL-E is one of the purest, most heartfelt love stories to grace the silver screen in ages. But it's also |
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Overhyped Products: DubaiMon Sep 28th, 2009
Justin Rohrlich
Once upon a time, Dubai existed as a vast desert of nothingness, inhabited by Bedouins and pearl divers. But then they built it, and they came. And then they left.
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Not Made in the USA: Ben & Jerry'sFri Sep 25th, 2009
Jarrod Dicker
In California, they boast that happy cows make happy milk. In Vermont, it seems that hippie cows make happy milk, or at least some damn good ice cream.Thirty-two years ago, lifelong friends Ben Coh |
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Three Ways to Connect With China's Profit PathwayTue Sep 22nd, 2009
Keith Fitz-Gerald During the politically charged period in the late 1980s and early 1990s -- when China believed it really needed friends -- a small number of Western companies ignored the controversies and refused to |






