Truffles and Trash

| MCM staff

When the same name crops up many times in different contexts, it’s hard to not experience a frisson a feeling that, somehow, you were meant to learn something

Opinion and Response

| MCM staff

A Rosy Tribute to Cesar Chavez Marking the first time that Jackson & Perkins has named one of its roses after a Latino figure, the plants cataloger has

hard labor

| Rama Ramaswami

You’re imprisoned in a small cubicle. You’re wearing a headset. Your phone rings constantly, and you’ve no choice but to answer it. You’re watched, compared,

Strong Medicine

| MCM staff

Last September’s attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, produced a strong and continuing consensus about the need for a heightened state of security

PC Mall buys solutions provider

| MCM staff

Computer cataloger PC Mall has agreed to buy substantially all the assets of technology solutions provider Wareforce out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The

NEW DOG OLD TRiCK

| D. Douglas Graham

You can applaud the skill of a prestidigitator even if you suspect that his act is all done with mirrors. But in a tough economy, when time and money

Wine With Everything

| Mark Del Franco

When you’re stuck with a lemon, you make lemonade, but what do you do with sour grapes? Make wine, of course. When a merger between two Web-based wine

IDENTITY CRISIS

| David Pluviose

FUEL PRICES AREN’T THE ONLY SHIPPING COSTS going up these days. Even if operations executives devote themselves wholeheartedly to penny pinching, the

Fab Five

| Barbara Arnn

The results are in, and the winners are clear. According to a Warehousing Education and Research Council survey conducted in July 2001, there are only