Business: March 2002 Archive Page

"Whether made by the Gap or American Eagle, a pair of khakis with a 32-inch inseam and a 34-inch waist will fit you just about the same. A Panasonic phone will plug into the jacks in your home as easily as a phone from AT&T.... Today, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, there are close to 800,000 global standards. But go back a century and a half and you find an American economy in which there were literally none." --Turn of the Century [the standardization of screws]font color="#000000"> (Wired)

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A report on the creators and marketers of popular culture for teenagers (teens talk back). --Merchants of Cool