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...PeopleExpress was gone by 1987, another example of a great concept that could not be sustained by the folks who got it off the ground. That's not going to happen to JetBlue. On Thursday the airline's board of directors pulled the ripcord on JetBlue's founder and CEO, David Neeleman in the wake of February's epic meltdown, in which a winter storm left thousands of passengers stranded. Some sat in JetBlue planes at JFK for up to 8 hours. You don't do that in a city where people get ticked off if a subway is delayed...
...complete the database. “By the end of 2008, we expect to have somewhere between 35,000 and 50,000 species pages. By the end of five years, we expect to have between 700,000 and 1 million pages available,” Edwards said. The concept behind the EOL resembles that of WikiSpecies, an existing taxonomy database administered by the Wikimedia Foundation, which also runs the open-source database Wikipedia. However, unlike WikiSpecies, the new encyclopedia will be peer-reviewed by experts, according to a draft description of the EOL. According to Edwards, specially designed software will...
...concept behind the encyclopedia resembles that of WikiSpecies, an existing taxonomy database administered by the Wikimedia Foundation, which also runs the open-source database Wikipedia. However, unlike WikiSpecies, the new encyclopedia will be peer-reviewed by experts, according to a draft description of the Encyclopedia...
...award recipients was Jacquelyn Chou ’07, who came up with the concept of Reflections two years...
...relativism, progress itself has come to seem a perniciously elitist and Eurocentric concept, a useful ideological tool for advancing a global capitalist agenda at the expense of what is condescendingly referred to as the “developing world.” And the neo-conservatives, who have portrayed themselves as the paladins of “end of history” Hegelian progressivism, are routinely demonized for leading the United States into a mistaken war in Iraq. All told, progress and the talk thereof have become nothing short of a pariah...