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...Stack's firm, each worker at Gore enjoys broad discretion to make minor decisions. Bigger ones--hiring and firing, setting compensation--are made by committees whose members constantly shift with the demands of the business. Anyone can start a new project simply by persuading enough people to go along with the idea. Even Bob Gore, 64, chairman and son of the founders, has his compensation set by a committee...
...impending shift is pretty radical. Unlike batteries, fuel cells don't store electricity. They generate it, via a chemical reaction between a hydrogen-containing fuel and oxygen. Fuel cells have been around for decades in exotic applications, powering satellites and spacecraft. They are being developed for commercial use in electric cars and to provide backup electricity for buildings (a truly "green" technology: their only emissions are water vapor and heat). Strapping a power plant to a mobile phone once seemed a silly idea?early prototypes for portable fuel cells were as ungainly as a pair of clogs?but miniaturization...
This past fall, her curiosity piqued, Germer came to Grace Street Church with Grizzle and Woodruff. She had begun to shift away from her political involvement on campus and from the friends she had made there. “I thought [church] was going to be totally nerdy, or be all like, ‘I love Jesus, you should love Jesus too!’” Germer says, adopting a high-pitched, mock-passionate voice. “And it wasn’t like that at all! These people are smart. They?...
There are, however, flashes of Albee’s wry verbal wit and sneaky ability to shift the foundation of his fictional world. When trying to sort out the details of an affair, Martin’s best friend Ross (portrayed by American Repertory Theatre founding member Stephen Rowe) questions, “Sylvia––the goat who you’re fucking?” “Don’t say that,” responds Martin curtly, before correcting him, “whom...
...weeks, a shift in the way that upperclass students are notified of awaiting packages will be complete, when all Houses are slated to end the practice of leaving package slips in students’ mailboxes...