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...mythological purple cow symbolically links Williams to its rural surroundings: we are about as far as we can be from Boston and still be in the same state, and Vermont is 10 minutes away. This can be an asset or a disadvantage, depending on what you like...
...mythological purple cow symbolically links Williams to its rural surroundings: we are about as far as we can be from Boston and still be in the same state, and Vermont is 10 minutes away. This can be an asset or a disadvantage, depending on what you like...
Major environmental organizations have well-organized, slickly produced websites that are worth a visit. Off the beaten cyberpath, however, are many colorful and sometimes quirky sites that show off the Web's greatest asset: its diversity. Here's the lowdown on some sites we liked...
Just as FBI counterespionage agents were drawing a bead on Los Alamos nuclear weapons scientist Wen Ho Lee, the files disgorged a curious fact: Lee's wife, Sylvia, had been an FBI "informational asset" at the very time Lee was suspected of passing classified warhead data to the People's Republic of China. From 1985 to 1991, according to well-informed sources, Sylvia Lee, a native Chinese speaker who held a support-staff job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, reported to FBI agents about visiting delegations of PRC scientists. She was not an "operational asset," jargon for paid informant...
...Bocconi business school, is that corporate size really does matter in banking, especially since the biggest banks are turning into one-stop service centers. According to Giavazzi, European banks are starting to follow another American model by replacing their traditional business of lending money with such financial services as asset management. "Being good is not good enough in asset management," Giavazzi says. "A bank has to be the best to attract customers, and that requires technology and highly trained personnel, which all cost money...