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...being able to thrive even in slightly polluted water, they provide an invaluable ecological service; a single adult oyster can filter 50 gal. (189 liters) of water a day. When Jamestown's founder John Smith first sailed into the pristine Chesapeake Bay 400 years ago, he had to navigate around oyster reefs 20 ft. high and miles long, which were effectively filtering the entire estuary - the country's largest - every few days, according to Rowan Jacobsen, author of the recent book A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur's Guide to Oyster Eating in North America. "If we can get oysters...
Nguyen, who is founder and chairman of VietnamNet Media Group, will also look at the journalism industry from a business perspective. The graduate of Harvard Business School will devote his semester in Cambridge to researching new media in Vietnam...
...from Yale, which dropped from first place to number 16. The Report Card’s press release proclaimed the Ivy League the “most sexually healthy conference.” All the Ivies placed in the top 40 schools in the ranking. Still, Bert Sperling, the founder of Sperling’s BestPlaces, the firm that conducted the study, said yesterday that he was a bit surprised that Ivy League institutions did not fare better in the study. “I’m familiar with the level of attention and care and concern they give...
...anything hold the fruit-fly attention span of kids? "Video games are not the answer," says Warren Gendel, founder of Fitwize 4 Kids, a chain of traditional children's gyms. "Kids will get bored and be back on the couch." Maybe, but that won't stop the games from coming. Fisher-Price just began selling a video-game bike for toddlers. No word yet on a version for the prewalking crowd--but don't bet against...
...Sept. 12 news article "HMC Chief Steps Down" gave the wrong name for the executive at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) that Mohamed A. El-Erian, president and CEO of Harvard Management Company, was expected to succeed if he had not come to Harvard. The executive was Bill Gross, founder of PIMCO and manager of the company's bond fund—not William S. Thompson, the company...