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...just super-excited. I love this guy," Bill Gurley, a Benchmark partner, told me. "We always feel a very strong need to find the best young talent to fit the criteria of what we think it takes to be a great venture capitalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook Loses a Top Executive | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...hydrogen. More than $40 billion in loan guarantees will help put such technologies to use. The President's 2009 budget calls for nearly $1 billion in public and private investment for the world's most ambitious program to demonstrate nearly emission-free power from coal. Last year's energy-bill mandates include billions of dollars of private investment to improve efficiency of vehicles, lighting and appliances and call for replacing 15% of our gasoline with alternatives. These efforts will cut billions of tons of greenhouse gases. With the U.S. investing more than any other nation to advance new technologies, Sachs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

America's Medicated Warriors I fear the fate of these brave soldiers 20 years from now [June 16]. In 2002 my brother Bill, a combat infantryman decorated with three Bronze Stars, took his life on the 34th anniversary of his return home from Vietnam. He was proud of his service but said that in order to survive, he saw and did awful things he could never talk about. I don't know what the answer is, but posttraumatic stress disorder and depression have to be treated with more than a Band-Aid like Prozac. The Department of Veterans Affairs needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...Bravo. finally, U.S. officials are enforcing the law. Illegal aliens are being rounded up and deported. They chose to break the law; the U.S. owes them nothing. Unemployment is rising and legal workers will fill the slots the illegals vacate. Bill Mrazek, Hohenwald, Tennessee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...decades. It fell from favor during the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and '60s, as African Americans looked more to change their future rather than focus on the past. Following a resurgence in popularity in the '70s, however, Texas state legislator Al Edwards in 1979 introduced a bill to make Juneteenth a state holiday; the first state-approved celebration took place the following year. Edwards, sometimes referred to as the father of Juneteenth (and less well known for his support in 2005 of a bill that would have banned sexy high school cheerleading), is one of many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Juneteenth | 6/18/2008 | See Source »

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