Word: development
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coming up with an idea way ahead of its time is no small feat, but thinking of one just ahead of its time can often be the bigger challenge (just ask John "Newton" Sculley and Steve "NeXT Computer" Jobs). Back in 1994, when Alain Rossmann launched Unwired Planet to develop software for sending Internet news and information to cellular phones, he could only hope the industry would follow his lead sooner rather than later...
HAVANA: Canada and Cuba are close trading partners. Now they want to get closer on human rights issues, according to a joint statement agreed upon during the visit of Canada's foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy to the communist island. "We're working with the government of Cuba to develop some joint programs or approaches dealing with human rights issues. We have now come to an agreement on some directions we can go in together," Axworthy said after a three hour tete-a-tete with Fidel Castro. The trip has raised concerns in Washington, which shuns any contact with Havana...
...experts are remarkably consistent. Rule 1, says labor consultant Malcom Cohen, is become computer literate. And right alongside it, he says, is learn to communicate well through writing and speaking. Notes Audrey Freedman, an economist who specializes in labor issues: "Students should take the toughest courses they can to develop their logic and reasoning capacity." Essential too, she concurs, is expressing oneself "clearly and persuasively." Above all, in a job world where change is the only constant, the most valuable skill for the young--and their elders--is the ability to keep on learning. (For more on training, see following...
...Harvard, the daily interaction of students in classes, athletics and extracurricular activities tends to promote a very diverse atmosphere. However, students of the same ethnic group often tend to cling together and form communities which may be insular. Minority students in particular often seek to congregate in order to develop cultural bonds in a larger social setting which is often unfamiliar and sometimes hostile to them. One reason the Interethnic Day of Service was a good idea is that it facilitated interaction between students of various ethnicities...
...group mission was to develop a foreign policy strategy for the United States. Discussions focused around the various levels of international involvement that the U.S. should pursue to achieve maximum benefit for Americans and their objectives worldwide. International relations majors (which most of us were), tend to favor involvement rather than isolation, and we were no exception. We reached an informal consensus early in the conference that the U.S. should participate to some extent in global institutions...