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...Angel investor Peter Thiel throws One Million User Party at Frisson (San Francisco...
There are several different ways a startup like TheFacebook can raise money. One way is through an angel investor—a private individual who invests in a company to help it expand or foot start-up costs. Typically, an angel investor is not granted significant voting power at a board meeting and has little creative control over the company...
...neurological condition that caused excruciating pain that she rated a "17 on a 1-to-10 scale." Pain-management experts at U.C. Davis prescribed a multifaceted treatment that included powerful opioid drugs and a spinal implant--all of which helped. But Jaeger regards psychologist Symreng as "my saving angel." Breathing techniques and soothing relaxation tapes help Jaeger reduce her pain level from 17 to 4 or 5 on a good day. "But really," she says, "it is just the talking to her that helps, because the more you hurt the more anxious you get, and the more anxious...
Surrounded by real actors (Tilda Swinton at her most immaculately decadent as the angel Gabriel, pinwheeling Peter Stormare as Satan, Rachel Weisz as The Girl), Reeves holds his own, creating a force field around his watchful entropy. In his early years, he may have been only a nerd's idea of a hip guy. Now, at 40, he has achieved a freon-cool satori, which makes him the perfect, still center of a visually agitated, intellectually restless movie. --By Richard Corliss
...this reason the quest for the historical Jesus continues. To the Gospel writers Matthew and Luke, the miraculous conception of Jesus was a divine act, unparalleled in history. Of course, whether people accept such a miracle depends on their philosophical world view. Luke: 1-37 says that the angel Gabriel assured Mary, "For with God nothing shall be impossible." That one passage explains it all. (The Rev.) Tony Costa Toronto...