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...undergraduate was UC vice president and chair of the Student Center Working Group. In 1999, the UC pledged $25,000 or the building of a student center—a paltry sum for what the center would ultimately cost, but a large chunk of the UC budget. “The money showed that we were serious about it,” Cohen says. At the same time, the UC put out a report on the need for a student center, which they coined “College Hall.”But College Hall was to be finished before...
...high-pressure hose, shooting sediment and nutrients off the continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. Starved of silt and undermined by oil-drilling operations, the delta has been sinking at the same time global warming has caused water levels to rise. The result: every half an hour, a chunk of land about the size of a football field is lost to the Gulf. Every year 22,000 acres sink beneath the waves. Locals say the Corps has traded a quick drowning for a slow but equally sure death...
...WHITMAN: No. We own 25%. When this chunk of stock became available from one of their original partners, we were offered the chance to invest and I said, absolutely. There was no right of first refusal [on future opportunities]. We have a seat on the board, but we don't have any more say in the business than any normal board member would have...
...incident for an astral calamity and frightens the neighbors by exclaiming, "The sky is falling!" In the world of traditional animation, when computer-generated (CG) 3-D cartoons came in, the sky did fall. The first piece was Pixar, with such movies as Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. Another chunk was DreamWorks (the Shreks). And, yes, an outfit called Blue Sky fell too, with Ice Age and Robots. Hand-drawn, or 2-D, animation was instantly kaput. Chicken Little was right...
...Wexner, the man who virtually invented the strategy of trading up, is now entrusting a big chunk of his business to the man who popularized the phrase. The trick, generally speaking, is to reposition things that are essentially commodities (coffee, sandwiches, vodka) by convincing the mass market that it needs a better version (Starbucks, Panera Bread, Grey Goose). Scarcity is stripped from the equation: in the new luxury math, there is a Starbucks on every corner and a Bath & Body Works in every suburban shopping mall...