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Still, the dotcom bust casts a shadow, with fears that once again too much money is chasing too few good ideas. The drive to go green, so strong today, could rapidly lose momentum if oil prices were to drop significantly, and it hasn't escaped notice that clean tech has yet to produce a bank-breaking success like Netscape, which made Kleiner Perkins a fortune. "Everybody with a dollar thinks they're a clean-tech investor now," says Foundation Capital's Grosser. "A ton of people could lose a lot of money on solar or biofuels." But defenders point...
Just the price of a cup of coffee is enough to help a Sudanese refugee avoid the potentially deadly search for firewood, say the student organizers of a weeklong donation drive. The campaign, led by the Harvard Darfur Action Group, calls itself DarfurFast—but doesn’t ask students to give up eating. “The concept of fasting is more symbolic,” said Firth M. McEachern ’08, treasurer of the group. “People are donating for the price of a latte, a taxi ride, a movie ticket...
...said in a telephone interview.Now, Liles calls her parents almost daily, often to consult with them about the fine points of her routine. She says they have supported her twirling since she began at age nine; her mother even sewed her earliest costumes. Liles’ father used to drive her across the state to twirling competitions in Waco and Arlington. Liles fondly recalls how her father made traveling to a competition seven or eight hours away into a fun family excursion.But those days are now over. “Here in Texas it seems to be a dying...
...head of the epidemiology department, praised MacMahon’s scientific accomplishments, as well as his personal strengths. “Brian MacMahon was one of the greatest men in contemporary science,” he said, “not only in terms of pure intellect and scientific drive but in terms of integrity and human qualities...
...musing out loud when a young staffer pipes up that he's bringing along a new volunteer from Arkansas named Jared. Huckabee pounces. "Oooh, I need him! Do you know him? What's his last name? Jared's our ticket. I just hope he's old enough to drive...