Word: visioning
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...political prisoner, has tapped into reserves that are out of reach of the World Bank and the IMF, reserves of willpower and pride the people themselves barely knew existed. Exuding the authority of Nelson Mandela and the charisma of Che Guevara, Gusmao has been traveling the country spreading his vision of the future. "All of us must let go of the bad things they have done to us," he said in his first speech after returning to Timor in October, "because the future is ours." Timorese may be hungry, but for the first time they are learning to stand...
...vision is almost lovely enough to obscure the enormous mountain Microsoft has to climb if it wants to plant its flag on the $7 billion games business. Sony stands astride this pile of cash like Gamezilla, with a 60% market share; 1 American household in 5 owns a PlayStation. The next-generation PlayStation 2 sold 980,000 units in Japan in record time; a rock-star-style arrival in the U.S. is scheduled for this fall. Sony's new machine also has the advantage of being backward-compatible, meaning you don't need to throw out all your old PlayStation...
Loeb Professor of the Natural Sciences Samuel L. Kunes, an expert in the field of vision and the brain, accepted tenure in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology last month...
Kunes' studies on the common fruit fly, drosophilia melanogaster, showed for the first time that some instructive signals for vision can be generated in the eye instead of in the brain...
...pledge $100 million to the creation of an online university of, as he puts it, "Ivy League quality." Happily, Saylor's students won't pay the Ivy League's staggering prices; the school would be free to anyone who had access to the Internet, and would, in Saylor's vision, eventually compete academically with the best universities in the world by attracting top teaching and research talent. Saylor's ideal is an utterly democratic institution - borne out of a period of frenzied capitalism. "Universities will lose control of knowledge, as they should," Saylor told MSNBC. "We all share the right...