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...that the scales have fallen from our eyes, we are confronted with horrible questions we never thought we’d have to ask ourselves. How long, we wonder, have the Harvard facilities lulled us into a false sense of security? How can we protect ourselves against our own brainchildren, the tools of our own making? Are we to be destroyed by the very forces that have worked so long to protect us? We now know that we may never trust another Harvard building again. The very fortresses we have forged have become the weapons that will destroy us. Beware...
...brainchildren of two of Harvard’s most famous dropouts—one conceived more than three decades ago, the other three years ago—united yesterday in a deal that places a $15 billion value on an online experiment launched from a Kirkland dorm room. Microsoft announced yesterday it would invest $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook, putting an end to a bidding war over a share in the popular social networking site. Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006, founded Facebook in 2004 with $1,000 in start-up money...
...brainchildren of two of Harvard’s most famous dropouts—one conceived more than three decades ago, the other three years ago—united yesterday in a deal that places a $15 billion value on an online experiment launched from a Kirkland dorm room. Microsoft announced yesterday it would invest $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook, putting an end to a bidding war over a share in the popular social networking site. Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006, founded Facebook in 2004 with $1,000 in start-up money...
...Trust has become the country's largest foundation helping youth in need; it's given money and advice to more than 60,000 young people to help them start their own businesses. As a kind of charitable entrepreneur, Charles runs 15 other foundations, all but two his own brainchildren, that raise over $190 million per year, employ 1,400 and attract 10,000 volunteers, making his the biggest multipurpose philanthropy in Britain. Charles' goals are not exactly radical, but neither are they blandly inoffensive. He promotes organic farming, alternative medicine and urban planning reforms to make communities more livable...
Philosopher Daniel Dennett is the author of eight books, most recently Brainchildren: A Collection of Essays...