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Only after reading Jerry Kaplan's book on GO Corp.--a former tech high flyer that flamed out--did Alvelda realize the marketability of a concept contained in a chapter of his 1995 Ph.D. thesis. That concept begat MicroDisplay, his first start-up, that same year and united his twin passions: education and technology. "There is an aspect of education and communication that helps people to grow personally that I never anticipated as part of the corporate world," he says...
...commercial strategy to sell music and clothes. It’s difficult to imagine a time when the underground prevalence of feminist political magazines bearing titles like “Diabolical Clits” and “The Adventures of Baby Dyke” was groundbreaking. The concept of women drawing empowerment from platform heels has long past reached its expiration date. The Riot Grrl has taken her place with the Girl Friday as something of an anachronism, and the Modern Woman is on the rise—but who is she? Laurel T. Ulrich’s best...
...concept of victimization doesn’t limit itself to the political arena. Perhaps the oldest stage, as well as the one most relevant to young adults between the ages of 18 and 22, is the theater of sexual relations. The intersection of gender and sexuality at today’s Harvard resurrects a feminist rallying cry, but as a question: Is the personal still political? Marital rape is, after decades of lobbying, a crime in all 50 states. Battered-wife syndrome is now a part of the cultural discourse. What falls outside the new boundaries between the two realms...
...study "had a good concept and incredibly pathetic execution," said Zone diet creator Barry Sears...
With Washington divided over Bush’s proposed troop “surge” in Iraq, the concept of sacrifice has resurfaced in American politics, but this time in a mutilated and parasitic form. Defying his predecessors, who demanded restraint and sacrifice from the country as a whole, the president has again chosen to place the entirety of the burden on a small segment of the public—the 130,000 American families, which will now become 20,000 more, with sons and daughters deployed in Iraq. Bush has ironically come to the same conclusion...