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April 25 to May 1, 2005
This man's making a mint from moving U.S.
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ories overseas and is responsible for some of the Chinese-made goods you see at Wal-Mart. He's crying while driving his Hummer to the bank...
An update on Iraq's ravaged cultural arti
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s - not good...
Photo Stitching http://www.newyorker.com/
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/content/articles/050411fa_fac...
April 18 to 24, 2005
And despite the arrival of efficient electric cars, large manu
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urers have discontinued their production...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Did you know that samples of a flu virus were mistakenly sent to 3,700 labs around the world and that some have gone missing? This normally would not cause worry except for the
fact
that the virus i...
April 4 to 10, 2005
An interview with the CEO of the last pinball machine manu
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urer on Earth...
February 21 to 27, 2005
To those electronics manu
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urers who have been talking trash about the iPod, I would counter: stop burdening your devices with needless features and design bling bling - usable elegance is the ne...
The new XML-centric method of Web development now has a de-
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o name - Ajax...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Here's the mp3, despite the
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that Simmons denied NPR permission to make the recording available...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
It's sad how behind the times car stereo manu
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urers are when it comes to portable digital music. All I want is a cheap $50 preamp with a minijack line-in and perhaps a USB port to stick my shuffl...
Personally, I think mercury in fish over long periods could be a
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or...
January 24 to 30, 2005
The 101 dumbest moments in business. Number three: the chairman of gun manu
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urer Smith & Wesson was forced to resign after it was discovered that he spent 15 years in prison for a string of arme...
The Bush administration OKs drilling for oil in rare grassland in New Mexico, despite objections from the state's governor, who used to be the Secretary of Energy in the Clinton administration. Thi...
January 10 to 16, 2005
Here's a PowerPoint presentation on the manu
fact
uring process - why they don't offer it as a PDF file is beyond me...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Nothing lasts - Buddhist monks who have meditated on corpses find themselves well-suited to help with cremating thousands of tsunami victims. "We just sort of live in denial of the
fact
that we hav...
December 13 to 19, 2004
"20 Amazing
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s About Voting in the USA...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
What will be the role of religion in the 21st century? Despite the
fact
that so many in America purport to be religious, mainstream voices paint the majority of citizens as preferring war over peace...
November 22 to 28, 2004
The chief economist at MorganStanley predicts that America has a 90% chance of an economic "armageddon", citing a number of "alarming
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s"...
November 8 to 14, 2004
The life of Chinese toy
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ory workers, in pictures...
October 25 to 31, 2004
LCD sales are expected to rise by a
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or of 10 before 2010...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
"Daily Show" viewers are more college-educated than "O'Reilly
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or" viewers...
September 5 to 12, 2004
U.S. broadband triples in three years. 75% use cable, only 15% use DSL: http://www.news
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or.com/story.xhtml?story_title=FCC--Broadband-Usage-Has-Tripled&story_id=2687...
Levis closes its last American
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ories...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Some
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s on The Carlyle Group from the movie "Fahrenheit 9/11"...
August 15 to 22, 2004
I was in line at the Kalihi DMV for two hours getting a replacement license. Three of six clerks are working, and those working spend about 30 seconds each transaction just retrieving paper-base...
August 8 to 14, 2004
The corporate ownership of computer technology is a large
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or. No one wants to (or can get the money to) do pure, essential computer science research...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
Unfortunately the gathering is digging latrines on Indian grounds "full of cultural arti
fact
s"...
June 21 to 27, 2004
1) radio is becoming less of a
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or in music popularity, and 2) artists should encourage the live recording community...
May 10 to 16, 2004
More about the RIAA fudging numbers to claim sales lost to file sharing: http://www.kensei-news.com/bizdev/publish/
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oids_us/article_23374.shtm...
May 3 to 9, 2004
Current chip design is overkill, often applying more precision to tasks when needed. By making chips that guess results when needed, one may be able to reduce power usage by a
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or of 1,000...
April 19 to 25, 2004
2) Support blending ethanol with gasoline, and support the growth of local ethanol manu
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urers. Which raw (waste) materials are cost-effective to import to Hawaii to produce ethanol? Does importin...
April 12 to 18, 2004
A new firefighting chemical looks and acts just like water, but it doesn't get things wet...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
A-POC ("A Piece of Cloth"): Seamless clothing A new manu
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uring method is changing how clothes are made by making ready-to-wear seamless clothes out of a single piece of cloth. This process ca...
March 15 to 21, 2004
"Shocking" videos of closed-door meetings show Diebold (electronic voting machines manu
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urer) representatives mention that data gets lost, machines are not certified, and that things generally jus...
March 8 to 14, 2004
And remember one of the core
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s of human nature (now scientifically proved) - when people are presented with more, they will take more, consciously or not...
February 23 to 29, 2004
The Transportation Security Administration, which handles airport terrorist checks, mistakenly identified one of its employees as a sex offender and fired him, despite the
fact
that the correc...
February 16 to 22, 2004
According to two new surveys, Apple leads the customer service satis
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ion pack over Dell, HP, and Compaq...
I didn't know Hoku Scientific was based in Kalihi! If they do well, can this be the start of turning Kalihi into a high-tech area (as HCC Provost Ramsey Pedersen would like to see)? The area's got ...
Add wireless to your business! At Schlotzsky's in Texas, a survey finds that more than 40 percent of customers say that free wireless access is a
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or in choosing the restaurant to dine at...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
The real story here is not that Hawaii is hosting the most prominent (international) conference on next-generation Internet technology - it's the
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that due to strict "anti-terrorist" policies...
December 1 to 7, 2003
Low-wage life is getting much worse for Americans: "Myths and Realities About Low-Wage Jobs": http://www.thebetrayalofwork.org/
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s.ht...
October 27, 2003
Like
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s? The 2002 State of Hawaii
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Book is now online...
October 20, 2003
Some interesting
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s about Wal-Mart, which is making a push to open hundreds of new "supercenters"...
September 2, 2003
An award-winning British journalist leaves the US after six years but finds it again at a Patti Smith concert. Lots of nice little
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s in this article.....
July 8, 2003
I personally believe that RFID will happen in some form whether consumers like it or not - it's just a matter of when and how it is implemented. As with any revolutionary technology, there are grea...