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The Massively-Connec |
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One of the world’s most powerful technologies is as tiny as a grain of rice. An RFID tag that can be implanted under the skin was approved in November, 2004. Just over a year later, more than 1,000 people have had them implanted in the procedure that takes just five minutes. |
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Oil Prices Are Poise |
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As explained in the June 2006 Trends issue, the price of oil is not up because the world is running out of oil. |
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The Skyscraper Boom |
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In 1885, the Home Insurance Building was completed in downtown Chicago. At 10 stories high, it was then the tallest building in the world. |
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A New Internet Boom |
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Very few companies get to a point where their names become both a noun and a verb in everyday parlance. In the 1960s, Xerox achieved that feat. But, the only company to come close to that achievement in recent times is Google. |
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The Lean, Mean World |
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Wal-Mart’s business model is deceptively simple: It sells a wide variety of products at the lowest price in any market it enters. It can sell at the lowest price because it relentlessly drives down its costs via scale-related economies. |
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