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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...initiative you've recently announced is the ability for people to tweet business plans to you. What's the thinking behind that? There are thousands of people out there who would like to get business ideas to me, and in any one day, I'll have a pocketful of people who have done it. I have lots of letters in my pockets and I have to hope I haven't sort of washed my jeans when I get back. At least if they tweet them to us, we have a new projects team that can check them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virgin Founder Richard Branson | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

Reverend Peter Gomes, longtime friend and supporter of Cox's grazing rights crusade, will preside over the ceremony along the steps of Memorial Church. There will be musical offerings. And a stately procession—with cow in tow—to the green area right behind the Divinity School, where the ceremony will be topped with a much anticipated milking...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Bovine Alert: Holy Cow To Graze in Harvard Yard | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...among these academics who ostensibly support the idea behind the proposal, skepticism remains...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professors Push Changes to SEC Reform | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...people from all backgrounds. Wells, who was not part of Rao and Vahia's team, spent 15 years painstakingly examining the disparate body of Indus Valley artifacts and compiling what is now the largest database of Harappan signs - 676 in total. Even though no one knows the root language behind the script, he reckons greater cooperation and a monkish devotion to the task can slowly unravel more secrets. Wells and a colleague have already made significant progress in decoding the Harappan system of weight measurements. "What you need is to keep an open mind, form a good idea and have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decoding the Ancient Script of the Indus Valley | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...eradicated by conquest or washed away by floods, or did its people just blend into other migrations settling the Indian subcontinent? Although Harappan cities were vast - Mohenjo-daro could have been populated by as many as 50,000 people, a staggering figure for such deep antiquity - they have left behind few towering monuments or epic ruins. Instead, we have clues in miniature, a copper figurine of a mercurial dancing girl, for example, and a treasure trove of delicately carved seals, most no larger than a postage stamp. "They are a window into how these people were thinking," says Vahia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decoding the Ancient Script of the Indus Valley | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

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