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...TheFacebook’s registry passes 3 million users by the end of March, Zuckerberg and his team get to drive the man’s Ferrari for a week, according to a bet between them, Zuckerberg says...
...gonna be like the Google guys and the Yahoo guys. The VCs are gonna hire somebody [who], you know, instead of 20 is probably [going to be] like 50 [years old] to come in and run the company. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. I bet Dave and Jerry at Yahoo are probably pretty appreciative of all the work Tim Koogle did and made them billionaires...
When your Kong budget at last takes full control of your wallet, a classical concert is also your best bet for a cost-free Friday night. Boston teems with free concerts, most of which can be found at the large selection of music schools. The New England Conservatory has the largest presence, but the Boston Conservatory, the Boston University School of Music, and the Longy School of Music all have concert calendars full of free performances. Longy, a hop and a skip from Cambridge Common, is closer to the Yard than even the Quad. MIT also has a very eclectic...
...because there aren't any liver effects, there aren't any cardiac effects, and the biggest problem you have is some constipation," which you can treat. On the other hand, Palmer believes that the COX-2 drugs are much safer in the young than in the old. "I'll bet if you break down all those Bextra, Celebrex and Vioxx studies and look at the age group under 40 vs. the age group over 70, you're going to see dramatic differences." The problem, she says, is that most drug studies treat patients from 18 to 80 as a single...
McShane too was no obvious bet. A working actor since age 17, he was a minor TV star in Britain and little known in the U.S. His best-known role here was as another baddie, in the 2000 indie crime movie Sexy Beast. "The question was how his [Mancunian] accent would play in such a quintessentially American role," says HBO entertainment president Carolyn Strauss. But, says creator David Milch, McShane dropped the accent and inhabited the role so thoroughly that he overcame Milch's doubts...