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Chopra said he was also concerned that the system would prevent the generation of new courses, since deadlines for finalizing the course catalog would have to be pushed...
Lewis agreed that finalizing the course catalog months in advance—it is usually not ready until June, while preregistration for fall classes were occur before summer break—would be a significant concern...
Meanwhile, Big Fat Promotions, a stealth-marketing pioneer based in New York City, says (without naming its clients) that it has paid bar "leaners" to casually talk up the merits of certain liquors, doormen to pile up packages from a particular online catalog company in the lobby of their building, mothers to talk about a new laundry detergent at their kids' little-league games and commuters to play with a new PDA on the train home. Jonathan Ressler, 38, who founded Big Fat (one look at the loud, hulking New Jersey native, he says, and you will know where...
...half of all known species. But many wild regions suffer from human encroachment, and species are vanishing at a rate not seen since the demise of the dinosaurs. Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson, along with Wired magazine founder Kevin Kelly and Stewart Brand, who set up the Whole Earth Catalog, among others, are raising money for a 25-year, $5 billion effort called the All Species Initiative to catalog every species on earth--perhaps 80% of which are still undiscovered. "Surely the rest of life matters," Wilson writes in The Future of Life. "Surely our stewardship is its only hope...
...their share of flops. They bought several confectionary businesses, including part of Kraft Foods' candy division for which they paid $200 million in 1995. The candy investment was bankrupt by 1999 because they failed to anticipate a flood of cheap competing products from Mexico. Their attempt to turn catalog clothier J. Crew into a bricks-and-mortar retailer resulted in an identity crisis that has alienated loyal customers...