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...challenge it poses to market capitalism on the second and final day of the Harvard Business School Global Business Summit.Former University President Lawrence H. Summers, in his keynote address, focused on the decline in the United States’s stature as a moral and economic “beacon?? over the past several years.“A decade ago, our economy was the envy of the world,” Summers said. “We were on the cutting edge of technological innovation in fields like biotechnology and the Internet. This financial crisis has changed...
...speech before the NASA Sunnyvale Symposium, Horowitz noted that Project Sentinal had its drawbacks: it required the use of “a directed and precompensated beacon?? and operated based on what have been termed “magic frequencies”—frequencies that humans calculate would likely be used by aliens trying to contact us. Such narrow search mechanisms limit the ability to search the sky, forcing Horowitz to ask: “How hard are these guys up there really going to work...
...Facebook altered the Beacon program so that information from affiliated sites would only by used if the user consented each time a purchase was made. In his apology this week, Zuckerberg stated that Facebook released a new “privacy control” allowing users to completely disable Beacon??a step he described as “the right solution” to the company’s previous mistakes. “Facebook was already a privacy nightmare, so I definitely don’t like that they were able to send out our information without...
...obliterated the moral high ground we struggled so hard to achieve through our transition to democracy,” he said. But, Leon said, South Africa has also had several notable accomplishments that have allowed it to stand out as a “moral beacon?? in the world and the African continent. “Under President Thabo Mbeki, South Africa has achieved a number of foreign policy successes, most particularly in the field of conflict resolution on the African continent,” he said. Originally a practicing lawyer and a lecturer at the University...
...Avenue in the dark, pummeled by rain, only the thought of Hi-Rise’s bread, straight from the oven, kept me going. I had arranged to observe the pre-dawn bread-making, and through the plate-glass windows the bakery’s light glowed like a beacon??the only sign of life on a dreary morning...
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