Earlier this year Granite set up an Internet site and bought a cheque-scanning machine to cut processing costs and help with marketing.

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Its maker, Amersham Biosciences , a division of Amersham Plc. (nyse: AHM - news - people ) of the U.K., claims the IN Cell machine will cut years off the drug-discovery process.

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Equipped with a mobile processor that combines a chipset, a processor, and graphics smarts, Hoff demonstrated lush visuals on a machine that will have a cut-rate price.

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Meanwhile, George W. Bush , a man who has spent his career in the most unpredictable industries imaginable, oil exploration and baseball, suddenly becomes the advocate of the cut-and-dried machine solution to a complex and subtle problem well beyond the tolerances of the machines in use.

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Inside, in a space not much bigger than a three-car garage, was a single shaft-painting machine, a work station where clubs were cut to size and grips attached, and racks containing 40, 000 to 50, 000 shafts and 5, 000 clubheads.

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Although the LG name has been a brand in most markets only for a decade or less, the company has come out with a few hits, including a 2006 steam washing machine, aimed at eco-minded consumers and designed to cut water and detergent usage.

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McCarver favors the 1976 Reds team, which won six fewer games but had a more dominant post-season, while sports historian Richard Crepeau of the University of Central Florida says take your pick--he agrees that the "Big Red Machine" teams of the 1970s are a cut above the rest.

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