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...unfettered capitalism. Instead, some are investing public money or working to secure the corporate investment needed to build wireless Internet networks that use fledgling WiMAX technologies and, more often, mature wi-fi platforms. Singapore is "unwiring" using tax revenue. Macedonia is doing the same with the help of U.S. aid. Municipalities as diverse as Prague, Paris, Norwich, Dublin and Chicago are either building or attempting to build wireless networks with public funds...
...Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said after completing a probe that held up the project for months. She added that state subsidies for such networks are acceptable only in limited situations - for example, "if they address a well-defined market failure." The Commission has on several occasions approved state aid when it determines that market forces are failing to provide a region with broadband. In February it okayed a publicly-funded fiber-and-wireless broadband scheme in North Yorkshire in the U.K. because the area was underserved by private industry...
...literary career hiding from fans, Eggers has used his fame to promote philanthropic causes. In addition to founding 826 National, the proceeds from his latest work, “What is the What,” which relates the life of a Sudanese refugee, will go to aid people displaced by the political turmoil in Sudan...
...interested in molecular cell biology. Back home in India, Rajarshi’s only cartooning experience was doodling in class. He sent in a cartoon poking fun at the Financial Aid Office as part of his application and thoroughly regretted it for the next three months. Now a freshman in Hurlbut, he wonders whether that’s the reason he’s here. You can check out his cartoons every Friday...
...feel like I struggled a bit in high school with racial issues, and it’s important to know someone else went through something much larger than me, and I was only following his footsteps.” In addition to four-year financial aid, the foundation organizes several leadership and mentoring programs throughout the year. Christina M. Gibbs ’08, a Jackie Robinson Scholar, has gone with Robinson to the networking weekend held every year in New York. This consists of career seminars, resume workshops, group activities, and, needless to say, personal introductions...