Within a few weeks he had offers for three sales jobs: at an olive co-op, the copier division of Smith-Corona and the diagnostics business of Dow Chemical (nyse: DOW - news - people ).

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Tipple on any number of Mexican beers -- Pacifico, Tecate, Bohemia (dark or light), Indio or Corona -- but while in Guadalajara try its locally-brewed beer, Minerva, which produces a pale ale and a stout in addition to the more common lagers.

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Plugged into an Ethernet network, Corona--which has a built-in Ethernet board--can pull all the applications and data it needs directly off a corporate server, without the need for local storage.

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By the early 20th century Syracuse became famous for production of Smith Corona typewriters, Syracuse China, Nettleton shoes, bicycles, wax candles and the Franklin, an ahead-of-its-time automobile with an air-cooled engine.

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Code-named the "Corona, " the new machine is a much-improved version of the Java Station that received a lukewarm reception two years ago.

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Corona's software includes an embedded Java operating system and a new variant of the old X-Windows software, which allowed for the creation of hardware-independent graphical user interfaces much like those of Windows or the Macintosh operating system.

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For starters, Corona is not just an Internet access device--as had been reported earlier--but is targeted more at internal corporate networks.

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