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...partly to avoid ending up in Kaplan's extensive archives that the digital workforce has started to act in a new and strangely sensible manner. When he got bored in his last job, software engineer Jason Fisher went to a headhunter and arranged interviews with 10 small, good-looking pre-IPO companies. Each made him a higher offer than the one before, and yet Fisher chose the company--myplay.com which copies and stores your CDs online--that made him the lowest offer. In fact, it was a pay cut. Why? "I didn't want to go anywhere that I didn...
Most of all, they'll try to avoid publicly criticizing each other. "All of us in this room," Venter told TIME last Thursday, "have found a way to put the human emotions behind us. There are things we have all said that, given a rational condition, we wish we hadn't said." Said Collins simply: "I heartily agree." With any luck, their bitter dispute, which has loomed so large for so long, will be a minor footnote in the genomic revolution that has barely begun...
...runs Stevens Media Consulting Ltd. Her office had a very Jack Paar-inspired set with a desk in front of a painted New York City backdrop. She gave me advice like not to wear hats "unless you have a clever or serious reason for wearing one" and to avoid the temptation of swivel chairs. She also told me, "You're the man," "Be the man," "Just be the man," and "It makes you the man." After reviewing the tape we had made, where I did fine because I wasn't really on TV, she tried to encourage me by saying...
...then there is the pole that runs the length of the train, to the side of your head. It is the bane of your Metro experience. The shorter people have to reach up to hold onto it. You have to strain to avoid knocking yourself out when the train hits a sharp curve...
...comes on the heels of the University's 1997 announcement that it had had secretly purchased 52.6 acres of land in Allston over the course of nine years. Working through a Boston real estate developer, Harvard bought $88 million worth of land while hiding its identity to avoid being overcharged...