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...country entered the tournament unseeded, but ultimately garnered a seventh-place finish. He won two straight decisions, his second round victory impressively coming over Pittsburgh’s No. 15 Ron Tarquinio, 3-2. In the next round, he dropped to the field’s top seed, No. 6 Dylan Long from Northern Iowa, 10-5, but later went on to pin Illinois’s Michael Martin in 2:57 to secure his top-10 finish...
...have a flax seed cereal in the dining halls which is organic and really good. Apparently it’s wildly popular and hard to get right now. It’s a new product and they’re having trouble keeping it on stockroom shelves.” McNitt said...
...Microsystems, Compaq and Amazon.com; in Los Altos Hills, California. Kleiner, who fled his native Austria in 1938, co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957, which developed a technique for mass producing silicon transistors. Fifteen years later, he helped establish the venture-capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, which gave seed money to more than 300 companies, including many tech powerhouses...
...protecting the currency. Every month, agents from across the E.U. travel to the Hague to consult and trade gossip on the latest trends and intelligence. And while on-the-ground operations are still handled by local police, they often receive assistance (communications, Jeeps, night-vision goggles and even seed money to set up sting operations) from the U.S. and the E.U. The U.S. Secret Service this summer opened a regional office in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, as part of an effort to crack down on what was, until recently, the second-biggest source of fake U.S. currency in the world...
...repayment rates. Plus, the short-term loans turn over several times a year, lifting tortilla makers in Mexico and basket weavers in Benin out of poverty along the way. With 3 billion people living on less than $2 a day, there's a huge market for this kind of seed capital. And although microfinance institutions (MFIs) tripled the number of borrowers to 27 million from 1997 to 2001, they are still reaching only a tenth of their target audience--hence the need to scale up by tapping into capital markets, which is no easy feat...