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...used by nine plants in four states, started life in 1990 as Sports International Inc., owner of Ohio's Columbus Thunderbolts arena-football team. That lasted only a year. The team was sold in 1991, and Sports International transformed into Startec, hoping to cash in on the technology boom. Among its announced ventures was a plan to convert tires to energy. That didn't turn out either, but somewhere along the line, Startec latched onto a synthetic-fuel process that other companies would license...
Back in the dotcom boom days, Yahoo! was the model of the modern fun company. Why, they put an exclamation point at the end of the name just in case you missed the point that it was a crazy, happening place to work. Beer bashes every Friday. Skateboarding in the halls. Frisbee at lunchtime. This kind of culture was the epitome of the new economy, where the players worked hard and the workers played hard, all in a fuchsia-colored office turned Disneyland with all the caramel lattes you could swallow. There was oodles of money to be earned, even...
...first group since 1986 to gain the right to an evening in the esteemed 1,166-seat space, the arrival of the LowKeys in Sanders is symptomatic of the distinctly collegiate a capella boom on campus...
...Significantly fewer people auditioned than in years past,” Vasan says, though he hesitates to attribute the decrease solely to the a capella boom...
Earlier this week, those taking their evening constitutionals by the dirty River Charles were overwhelmed by a most unusual phenomenon: a veritable swarm of sweaty, raving undergraduates charging down the red-brick paths, waving tattered caps as they yowled. Cheers drowned out boom-boxed anthems; in the Quad, where Dartboard makes his reluctant home, an explosion of some sort shattered...