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Decision Making for |
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| Is it a safer investment for an American company to build a new plant in Mexico ?or in China? |
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Quantum Computing Ad |
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| Many of the problems of nanotech, biotech, and anti-terrorism are so complex that today萸� computers ?based on an architecture defined nearly 60 years ago ?can萸� address them. However, hope is on the horizon as researchers get closer and closer to building commercially viable quantum computers. |
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Choice Overload |
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| In today萸� marketplace, consumers are bombarded with more choices than ever ?yet they are increasingly less satisfied. Whether they are buying a car, choosing a cell phone plan, ordering a beverage at Starbucks, or selecting a breakfast cereal at the supermarket, Americans are finding that simple decisions have turned complicated, time-consuming, and confusing. |
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Video Gaming Becomes |
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| The market for home video games is only 30 years old. It began in 1975, when Atari released a home version of Pong. Global industry sales of home video games totaled $28 billion in 2002, the last year for which reliable worldwide industry figures are available. In the same year, U.S. sales of computer and video game hardware and software exceeded $11 billion and probably surpassed $13 billion in 2003. |
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Hey What"s That |
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| It��셲 not the ��쐅iant sucking sound��� that Ross Perot predicted would signal the drain of millions of American jobs to Third World countries. It��셲 true that many U.S. workers in manufacturing industries have seen their jobs vanish, and that the U.S. workforce has been declining for more than three years. But the problem isn��셳 foreign competition with cheaper labor. |
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