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...informative panel sessions addressed a wide array of topics, such as "Trends in Undergraduate Public Service," "Philanthropy in the 21st Century" and "Connecting the Local and Global...
...record numbers of people worldwide are "over there"--not here. As long as health care workers "over there" are reusing non-sterile syringes and medical equipment, have no rapid way of contacting international or even national health authorities, lack basic laboratory diagnostic capacities and are overwhelmed by an astonishing array of background diseases that sap the time and intellectual stamina of their staff, nasty microbes will continue to break out. And, as happened with HIV, eventually something "over there" will find its way over here...
Breaking up has worked in the past. Ma Bell's dizzying array of spin-offs, including the regional Bell companies in 1984 and Lucent and others in the '90s, have mostly done well by being good businesses to start with and then being set free to raise capital, allocate resources independently and enter new markets as they liked...
...groups like the teachers' unions (which fight tooth and nail to defeat voucher initiatives), as well as wealthy individuals like Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen (who spent $8 million to garner support for public funding of a new Seattle football stadium), have become a significant force behind the seemingly endless array of propositions littering state ballots nationwide...
Pity the poor copier. long the undisputed king of office equipment, the mighty Xerox machine has of late become more like an adding machine, an ancient workhorse being shunted aside by smaller, cheaper and better gadgets--in the case of Xerox, a sexy array of PCs, printers and scanners. For any office drone who has ever cursed a paper misfeed or the dreaded ADD TONER warning, the end of the copier's reign is welcome. But it has put Xerox, the $19 billion-a-year imaging pioneer, in quite...