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Despite the disappointment, the team was happy with its performance and content in the fact that it proved to itself how good it could...
...also lay down the critical connecting tracks between them, simplifying the chips' manufacture and increasing their speed. Fairchild and TI fought a bitter patent battle that Fairchild ultimately won. But the gentlemanly Kilby and equally gentlemanly Noyce, who died in 1990 at age 62, were always content to call themselves co-inventors...
...timing of Pay It Forward's release is certainly serendipitous, given the current acrimony between Washington and Hollywood over content. The folks behind the film are eager to do their bit. J.P. ("Rick") Guerin, chairman of Tapestry Films, which produced the movie, helped Hyde set up the nonprofit Pay It Forward Foundation to make sure the idea (which he calls a "chain letter of kindness") survived beyond the theater. "Most movies leave you laughing or happy or excited," he says, "but few send you out feeling like you want to do something. Hollywood could use a few more movies like...
...some analysts say CyberWorks' problems go deeper than short-term stock volatility. Several strategic joint ventures aimed at turning the younger Li into Asia's most dynamic multimedia baron have failed to materialize in recent months. One deal was intended to enable CyberWorks to distribute Chinese-language content to the mainland. CyberWorks has also been unable to persuade Japanese Internet giant Softbank to distribute its Network of the World (NOW), a broadband Internet service delivered across Asia to television sets, computers and wireless devices. "This suggests it isn't as attractive as its potential partners once thought it was," says...
...contrast to some universities such as Yale which have been torn by the question of grad student unions, Harvard graduate students seem to be content. According to Harvard Graduate Student Council President Lisa L. Laskin, Harvard graduate students are treated comparatively well and tend to have other, more pressing concerns...