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...many companies that began as incubators are repositioning themselves as pure VCs," says Uwe Fleischhauer, a partner in the consultancy Mackewicz & Partner in Munich. Says Paolo Chiari, investments coordinator of Italy's E@rchimede, "We started off in March 2000 as an incubator but by November decided to shift our activity toward that of an accelerator. So instead of investing in businesses which were in fact no more than an idea and a few people, now we want start-ups to have at least some consolidated revenue and some assets already...
...mythic epic narrative which has as its center a female consciousness," says James Schamus, one of the film's writers and producers. "In all the great epics, from the Iliad on, the protagonists have been masculine, their destinies a masculine destiny. Now a real shift is taking place, in which some collective identities - those created for the whole culture regardless of gender - are female...
...President Bush qualified the shift from his campaign promise with the almost charmingly guileless explanation that he'd failed to take notice of the fact that carbon dioxide is not listed as a pollutant in the 1970 Clean Air Act. This by-the-book rationalization is, of course, entirely at odds with the growing consensus among scientists that carbon gases are causing global warming, and puts the U.S. on a collision course with most of the international community, which has been pressing, through the Kyoto Accord on Climate Change, to curb carbon-gas outputs...
Aiese says WHRB has actually benefitted from the shift...
...leader back into his reclusive and unpredictable shell, and that point appeared to be underscored by Pyongyang's decision to cancel Tuesday's talks. And a fit of diplomatic pique may be the best-case scenario - the South Koreans are concerned that if North Korea perceives a more hostile shift in Washington, it may renew its unpredictable military brinkmanship in order to put pressure on the U.S. and South Korea. Pyongyang has spent much of the past decade acting crazy with missiles in order to extort aid and concessions from the U.S. and its allies in the region, and there...