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...Though Corning’s financial position was strong throughout the 1990s, its fortunes dropped sharply following the end of the dot-com boom when the company’s large investments in optical communications soured. As the stock fell to just five percent of its previous value, Corning’s board turned to their trusted leader to revive the company, even though he had been retired for six years...
...quality of the Web. Justice calls the hoopla a reminder of "just how difficult it is today to control the destination of images and the integrity of their meaning." Indeed, that integrity seems to get fuzzier with each new viewer clicking play - and, for that matter, with each new dot-com article about...
...episode could just as well have been rooted in another kind of unease. Locke, long an academic underperformer, will come under new management in just a few weeks. After a protracted battle, L.A. Unified School District's board voted in the fall to turn it over to Green Dot Public Schools, a private non-profit that plans to turn the campus into a cluster of charter schools. Come July 1, many of Locke's teachers will be out of work. And students, worried about new policies like required uniforms, wonder whether there will still be a football team...
...communities across the U.S. that boomed during the housing bubble, Elk Grove is feeling the pain of the housing burst. For the most part, the trauma of eviction is hidden--the suburb has the occasional overgrown yard, although not as many as I'd expected, and FOR SALE signs dot the streets. But a funny thing happened on the way to Elk Grove's demise: it has started to come back. Over the past six months, investors and first-time home buyers have moved in, snapping up homes now priced at less than $250,000. Residents are working to make...
...with your friends in real-time.” A new chat bar appears at the bottom of the user’s browser when signed into Facebook, showing the online status of the user and other friends signed on the networking site. Availability is indicated by a green dot similar to the one on Google’s Gmail chat. Facebook acknowledged yesterday on its blog post that it would be “rolling this out slowly going forward.” As of yesterday afternoon, the Harvard Facebook network was one of a handful of other Ivies...