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...involved have encountered their share of bad news and hard times. But this is the inevitable result of the excitement and chaos that surround any new industry. Think of all the dreams that were shattered, careers that were ruined and money that was lost as a result of the birth of the huge industries that developed around oil, telephones, movies, automobiles, airplanes, semiconductors and personal computers. Working with young companies can be dangerous for anyone. It doesn't matter whether that was in Akron, Ohio, in the 1870s, Detroit in the 1920s or Santa Clara, Calif., in the 1990s...
...circumstances beyond my control (e.g., my birth), race is more plastic for me than for some. The catalog of purported racial characteristics I could assemble seems to be compounded rather than dissolved by my particular heritage: one black parent and one white. Examples follow...
...less than one-in-10,000 chance of developing DVT; by 75, the risk is closer to one in 1,000. Also at higher risk: people who have suffered or are suffering from cancer, women taking contraceptive pills and women who are pregnant or have recently given birth. And even generally healthy passengers are at some risk if they stay immobile during the flight. ?There?s no doubt sitting still can be a factor,? says Kesteven...
...child of classical musicians and a cellist himself, Jaakko Salovaara listened to Bach from birth, with some Twisted Sister and AC/DC thrown in. But when he heard acid house on a trip to London in '89, he was converted. He negotiated his teens with one hand on a bow and the other on a mixing deck. But the pulse of the club beat was stronger than the conductor's baton, and at 20 he launched a solo career as the dance artist JS16...
What's different for Yahoo is that since its birth in 1995, the company has known nothing but the occasional hiccup on the way to world domination, and it certainly has never had to cope without its one true CEO, known within the company as T.K. The moment he stepped aside last week, the company shut itself up more securely than a city-state under siege, leaving observers jostling to deliver the most ironic epigram. "There were rumors not so long ago of Yahoo buying Disney," offered Jupiter senior analyst Aram Sinnreich. "Now they'd be lucky if Disney buys...