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For the last year, Allen Fahden has operated the READundant bookstore in the Nicollet mall in Minneapolis. Though it’s set up like a traditional bookstore, with sections on sports, religion, history, etc, its 5,000-book inventory consists of only one title–Fahden’s own management book Innovation on Demand. Fahden said his store is based on one of his management principles: the use of opposites to generate creative thoughts. The store’s in-house best-seller list shows Innovation on Demand occupying each of the ten slots.
Can’t Possibly Be True
Patrick L. Bark, 59, pleaded guilty in September in Kansas City, Missouri, to selling more than 1,300 guns illegally over a two-year period, including many to juveniles and felons. Said Bark at his sentencing, “I blame half of it on the [government] for letting me go as long as they did. How was I to know [the guns] would be used in [crimes]?”
Undignified Deaths
