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...market capitalization, leaving it the third largest company in the world behind General Electric and Microsoft. Cisco has built dominant market share in a crucial high-technology industry--controlling 50% of the $21 billion business-network market, where it has obliterated once formidable rivals like 3Com, Cabletron and Bay Networks. "We definitely are in the sweet spot," says Chambers of Cisco's prospects. "The whole network business has become a home game for Cisco." Think of it this way: in a wired world where we are just learning to walk, Cisco has become the biggest, best shoemaker on the planet...
...already begun taking meetings. So far she's talked to practically every studio, as well as Robert De Niro and director Michael Bay. Last week she met Ridley Scott, who's scouting a female lead for Hannibal now that Jodie Foster has declined to reprise her Silence of the Lambs role. "I haven't sat with [Martin] Scorsese yet," says Swank, who's angling for a part in his Gangs of New York opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, though she hears Cameron Diaz has an inside track. "That will be my truly impressive meeting...
Last semester they focused their community efforts on cleaning up the Back Bay Fens Park, but this semester they plan on working with the Arlington Street Church making meals for the poor...
Massachusetts authorities plan to return Martin to the Bay State to face murder charges, although it's not clear when that will happen, Anson Kaye, a spokesperson for the Middlesex County district attorney's office told the Associated Press...
...Marco Polo's stories became the dreams of Christopher Columbus. The quest for a passage to Cathay, the medieval name for northern China, would propel countless explorers through serendipitous discoveries in America. (In 1634, for example, the Frenchman Jean Nicolet left Quebec in search of China and discovered Green Bay, Wis.) Meanwhile, Franciscan missionary diplomats sent by the Pope to seek an alliance with the Khan against Islam brought back a black powder to a fellow Franciscan, the Oxford scientist Roger Bacon, the first European to write about gunpowder...