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Venture capital funds provide money to new companies. In recent years, with the advent of hot new markets like the Internet, venture capital funds have become increasingly popular. Venture capitalists have begun limiting to make sure large corporations don't dominate...
...weeks, driving up the Nikkei stock market average some 25% so far this year. The problem is that Japanese corporate profits are also heavily dependent on exports, which can rapidly become too expensive for foreign consumers as the yen appreciates. Indeed, big exporters like Mitsubishi and Bridgestone have begun to complain publicly that Japan's currency is too strong. Sony recently blamed a profit slump on the yen as well...
Novatel, whose Minstrel line of wireless modems is popular with Palm users, has just begun shipping the Merlin, which works on most PC laptops, to retail stores. The company says that at $279, it is the cheapest wireless modem around (I haven't found a cheaper one--others tend to cost $400 and up). Another plus: the Merlin draws roughly one tenth the power of a typical laptop modem. That's good news for road warriors and anyone else trying to conserve their laptop's battery...
Corporations eager to attract and retain experienced workers have also begun to provide benefits that appeal to grandparents. Lucent Technologies, based in Murray Hill, N.J., offers a variety of family-friendly perks--and grandparents are included in the company's definition of family. Deborah Boyd, who has primary care of her five-year-old grandson Charles, frequently consults company-provided counselors for answers to child-rearing questions. She has also applied for and received two separate grants to enhance his child-care center: $3,000 to buy a classroom computer and $19,000 for new playground equipment. Boyd is delighted...
...mind-numbing pages that open this 504-page biography of Vince Lombardi bring to mind a howitzer aimed at a sparrow: this is about a football coach, after all. If Clinton biographer Maraniss had begun by telling us briefly that Lombardi arose from an ethos built on the trinity of church, family and a few years as assistant coach at West Point, that would have been enough for us to appreciate what follows. Because once Lombardi reaches Green Bay and the Packers, the book soars like a game-winning field goal...