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...same time, the investment-friendly biotech industry is blossoming with the official opening on Monday of the North Carolina Research Center in Kannapolis, just 30 minutes from downtown Charlotte. The public-private partnership is the vision of David Murdock, the billionaire owner of Dole Food Company and Castle & Cooke. Estimates are that eventually the campus will create 5,500 biotech jobs locally and 37,000 related jobs across the region. More than symbolic, the NCRC stands on the grounds of a former textile mill, Pillowtex, which closed in 2003 with a loss of nearly 5,000 jobs...
...Lessons, which chronicles the biggest business failures in the past 20 years, came out in September, right before Wall Street firms started collapsing. "They're seeing common threads of what got these companies into trouble, so they are applying what they know to the news headlines," says Weisser. Similarly, David Smick's book The World is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy reached shelves a month ago. The material is right on target, although the title could have used a tweak - dangers to this economy are anything but hidden...
...Entrepreneurship Forum, who were the lead organizers for the competition, said they were pleased with the effort of the competitors. “I was impressed with the diversity of pitches, the quality of the pitches, and the level of enthusiasm that the competitors had,” said David Kosslyn ’11, one of the co-directors of the Entrepreneurship Forum. “The back and forth between audience members and the competitors was great, as was the feedback from the judges for each participant.” —Staff Writer Prateek Kumar...
...Rabbi David J. Wolpe and psychology professor Steven Pinker debated the existence of God and the benefits of faith at Harvard Hillel last night. The discussion, which focused on questions of morality and whether altruism can exist without faith, was cosponsored by Hillel and the Harvard Book Store to promote Wolpe’s new book, “Why Faith Matters.” Wolpe—named the number one pulpit rabbi in America by Newsweek earlier this year—and Pinker—an avowed atheist and best-selling author of books on the human mind...
...against President Bill Clinton in 1996, Dole started campaigning in states that were of little help to him but where he could assist Republicans trying to hold on to their majorities in Congress. That kind of pivot hasn't happened in this race, though over the weekend conservative writer David Frum openly called on McCain to do just that for the good of the party. Scott Reed, who ran Dole's '96 campaign, says he believes McCain could still pull off a victory. "I think Schmidt's strategy has brought [McCain] back and kept it from being a blowout...