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Like it or not, the computer industry is still primarily a man's world. But that hasn't discouraged 12-year-old Marisa Morales, who dreams of being a veterinarian, an actress--or a computer...
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WEB SITES GO BILINGUAL TO REACH LATINO AUDIENCES
As marketing director David Witherspoon goes back through his sales files at Palm Harbor Homes Inc., he's troubled by what he doesn't see: customers with Spanish surnames. The manufactured-housing company...
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS ALUM’S WORK EARNS NOBEL AT LAST
Jack Kilby's invention of the integrated circuit ushered in a digital age of notebook computers, cellular phones and countless electronic devices yet to come. Forty-two years later, the man who...
5 BR, NO LINCOLN
For years, political skeptics have contended that the White House is for sale. And in Dallas it is. OK, so it's not the one on Pennsylvania Avenue, and residency in...
`THE SIMPSONS’: STATE-OF-THE-ART SELLOUT
In its 10th anniversary year, "The Simpsons" can be summed up in two simple sentences: "The Simpsons" is television at its coolest and most cutting-edge. "The Simpsons" is television at...
HOMING IN ON THE RIGHT DEAL
When Jeff and Kim Askew were shopping for a loan to buy their first home, they had a choice to make: Go with a fixed-rate mortgage or an adjustable-rate mortgage,...
ADVANCES IN CARDIAC CARE
It has been as quiet as a heartbeat, but every bit as steady: Over the past generation of patients, progress in cardiac care has been little short of revolutionary. Doctors...
HOAXES FINDING NEW LIFE ON INTERNET VIA E-MAIL–AND GULLIBLE READERS
The e-mail "WARNING" starts with a plausible bit of authority. But it's soon evident that another leg-puller lurks in cyberspace. "The Institute for the Investigation of Irregular Internet Phenomena announced...
THE KING OF SOLES KNOWS WOMEN WANT SEXY SHOES
As Newsweek recently noted, Cynthia Marcus, Neiman Marcus' vice president for ladies' shoes, tells everyone that if Manolo Blahnik "wanted me to change the name to Neiman Blahnik, I'd do...
THE MASTER
A glance through the new volume "Steichen's Legacy" could lead one to believe that Edward Steichen did everything in modern photography. And he did it with a sumptuous luster: turn-of-the-century...