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...There's certainly a potential for one of these companies to become the most popular and dominate the field, and that's particularly true if their technology and business model envisions some kind of a multisite pass," says Rich Gordon, director of digital innovation at the Medill School of Journalism. (See the 10 biggest tech failures of the last decade...
...state and city level, the governors in L.A. noted. The summit "is part of that global groundswell that perceives the threats from climate change, but also the inordinate opportunities if the world acts now and in concert to transit to a low carbon, green economy," said Achim Steiner, executive director for the U.N. Environment Program...
Created in 1998, Fly-By is an upperclassmen-only self-service lunch program that serves an average of 550 people per day in Loker Commons, according to Martin. HUDS Executive Director Ted A. Mayer says he designed Fly-By to help students who were having difficulty getting lunch because of their schedules or the location of their Houses...
...Italy, where immigration has skyrocketed in the past decade, racism is becoming a front-burner issue. Aly Baba Faye, regional director in Rome of the Anti-Racism Observatory, says the Prime Minister's comments are indicative of attitudes in Italy and unhelpful in changing prejudices. "Berlusconi thinks he's funny, but he's not," says Faye, an Italian citizen who emigrated from Senegal 30 years ago. "For one world leader to talk about the skin color of another is utterly disrespectful and sets a bad example for ordinary folk." Faye says Berlusconi's comments make it more likely that people...
...1980s are flawed, there is an unfortunate parallel in at least one respect: Moscow's insistence that Afghans recognize their puppet government, despite its failure to deliver to the people. "Everyone is focusing on the number of troops the U.S. has in Afghanistan," says analyst Haroun Mir, director of Afghanistan's Center for Research and Policy Studies. "The Russians had twice as many troops [as the NATO coalition does now] but they failed, not because they were weak, but because the Afghan government was never accepted by the people. If people do not accept and recognize the legitimacy...