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The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

Alfred P. Sloan, former chairman of General Motors

What was the best thing before sliced bread?

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Do you remember your first digital camera? Ours was a Canon Digital Elph, with a 2.0-megapixel processor in it. It was small and heavy and the screen on the back was about an inch across, barely able to display pictures we had taken with the camera in a visible size. When you turned the digital image into an actual printed picture through the local photo depot, you could not print it larger than ...

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