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When September arrives, it will bring with it the incessant scheduling, listing, and other daily drudgery of the school year. But when I hand in my study card this year, I hope it won’t symbolize the beginning of nine months of predictability and struggles to meet deadlines. Maybe it will be the beginning of a new kind of school year—one in which learning about myself and embracing academic passion aren’t put on the back burner, but are instead allowed to flourish in all their silliness and sincerity: nine months of July...
...name and sex listed on one’s visa, social security card or other work-related documentation does not match a transgender person’s presentation, then that person will have a very hard time getting employment, especially when documentation troubles coupled with societal hatred of transgender people lead to job discrimination...
Standard encryption, says the ponytailed Alex, is like an "armor-plated pipe that connects two places over the Internet," and hackers know credit-card information is secure while it's en route. But it turns out it's easy to swipe the encryption "keys" from companies' servers. So Ncipher developed a safebox for the keys that also speeds up decryption. "It's kind of a Mission: Impossible thing," Alex quips. Of course, smart technology doesn't ensure profits--and Ncipher hasn't turned one yet. But in October 2000, it launched one of the last IPOs of the boom, raising...
...annually--but almost all of it is written under contract for such mammoth outsiders as Microsoft. Hukku, 45, wants to change that. I-flex, which began as a separate business in 1988, sells a range of products under its Flexcube label that help financial-services companies manage banking, credit-card and other transactions. It's a competitive field, dominated by firms like Temenos and Misys, but i-flex has customers, including the American Stock Exchange, in more than 90 countries. With fiscal 2003 revenue of $134 million and 2,370 employees, Hukku's company qualifies as one of India...
...snow-white Kangol cap, is happily murdering Van Morrison's Have I Told You Lately. Ya Shop stocks the widest range of cheesy, fitted polyester shirts in Chatuchak (from 100 baht, or $2.50, upwards). But rather than rely exclusively on the lure of synthetic fabrics, its business card proudly boasts that the store is "near the toilets," which, it should be noted, are kept amazingly clean considering that Chatuchak draws some 300,000 shoppers spending a total of more than $730,000 every weekend...