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...software-based firewalls--layers of protection that block junk e-mail and attacks on computers from hackers and viruses--Xie noticed that those programs slow down networks. So, like a true Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he retreated to his garage in his spare time and started working on a new approach. He envisioned a remote piece of hardware that screened Internet content and didn't interfere with application software. In 1997 Xie, an engineering graduate from Tsinghua University in Beijing, launched the network-security company NetScreen, which was eventually acquired by Jupiter Networks. That success allowed him to raise venture capital...
...talk in genres," Kennedy says, "and this is clearly a thriller from a movie-making standpoint." On the other hand, it had to be a character-driven and intellectually acute thriller to satisfy her and Spielberg's ambitions for it. So "we knew and took the approach early on that we are not making a documentary." At some point the phrase "historical fiction" entered their conversations. They understood that they would have to compress and conflate some of their material. And, yes, do some inventing as well. "The fiction," says Spielberg, "comes in the interpersonal relationships of the five members...
...doctors hope to further reduce the danger of rejection by injecting the patient with stem cells taken from the bone marrow of the original donor. That is an experimental approach in which the donated stem cells should, in effect, teach the woman's immune system to tolerate the graft...
...back Clifton Dawson has begun to assess the prospects of joining his former quarterback on the sport’s biggest stage.Harvard coach Tim Murphy said that he and Dawson have discussed the process of wooing potential NFL suitors, and that the two of them will follow the same approach that got Fitzpatrick noticed following his junior season at Harvard. The two of them will likely put together a highlight reel of Dawson’s most outstanding plays for the Crimson and send it to every NFL team.But above that, it will be the running back?...
Their fourth pledge is to increase party and House Committee (HoCo) funding. This is Magnus and Tom’s answer to the question of how to approach social planning. The UC’s party fund is a popular initiative, but demand far outstrips supply. Since the introduction of the super parties, many Houses no longer have a weekly UC party. The first-come-first-serve funding model for parties is ludicrous, and UC-funded parties are generally very poorly advertised. Magnus and Tom think the UC should decentralize social planning and support House life by providing more funding...