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Technology companies are engaged in paradigm wars. By their very nature, wars are wasteful and destructive. In the 1960s, Thomas Kuhn, an obscure professor of the history of science, wrote a modest volume entitled The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, whose subject was how scientific “knowledge” evolves. The development of physics from Ptolemy to Copernicus to Galileo to Newton to Einstein was one of his many examples. The book had an unexpected, far-reaching impact on numerous disciplines, including business, because Kuhn explained how, at any point in time, there is a prevailing view of things that determines what is accepted as...

Gun used to kill prosecutor is focus of massive search By Steve Miletich Seattle Times staff reporter FBI agents are conducting an unusually sweeping search for a customized gun used in the killing of Seattle federal prosecutor Thomas Wales, according to the owner of a Minnesota arms company and sources familiar with the investigation. The gun, an Eastern European-made semiautomatic pistol called a Makarov, had been fitted with a replacement barrel that leaves telltale marks on bullets. The search, one of the most laborious gun sweeps in FBI history, is taking place in all 50 states, as agents track down...

<p>A new kind of war - against international terror - began in September 2001 with pre-emptive strikes on America. That war has now moved to Iraq while following a new paradigm in answer to the dilemma: Who are we to fight when it is not a nation that delivers international war to our door?</p>