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While the groups grew under Smith’s attention, now the question is whether they will live beyond his graduation or disappear like countless other student groups before them...
...burst. Venture capitalism needs their help. As dotcom companies wrote down their assets, went bankrupt or held fire sales, their VC backers found themselves with little to return to their own investors. As many as 80% of Europe's incubators and independent early-stage venture firms are expected to disappear by next year. Jean-Bernard Schmidt, founder of Paris' Sofinnova venture capital firm and chairman-elect of the European Venture Capital Association, points out that since the venture market in Europe is far less mature than in the U.S., the Continent has a far greater share of these young funds...
...kids is rising, there is another figure--the number of children on public assistance whose checks go directly to them, not through a parent, because often no parent exists to open them--that is indisputably on the increase. That these kids don't rate headlines is perhaps natural. To disappear, a child must first exist, must be cherished by someone, cared about--at least enough for someone to snap her photo. Remaining forgotten, though, is not a story...
...would be nice if, when the next alert goes out, rousing the public's justifiable outrage and the media's sometimes questionable interest, it might trigger a wider, silent alarm as well--for the kids who can't disappear because they are already lost...
...reefs are expected to vanish in the next 30 years and about 36 million acres of forest are being razed annually. In his new book, The Future of Life, Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson writes of his worry that unless we change our ways half of all species could disappear by the end of this century...