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They said they would have liked to see more details on what Harvard will do to limit the negative impacts of construction, which range from dust to noise to vibrations...
...that was his pixie-dust era. ABC, which Eisner bought for $19 billion in 1996, swung from earning $1 billion in operating income in 2000 to losing $36 million last year. Eisner blew at least $1.6 billion on Internet ventures, including the Go.com portal, and in 2001 he paid $5.2 billion for the Fox Family Channel (considered a high sum), which was renamed ABC Family and proceeded to slump in the ratings. None of this has been lost on investors: Disney stock wobbles at around $22 a share, half the heights it reached...
Meanwhile, Keys is working her songbook. While some performers get tired of playing their hits, Keys continues to look forward to the moment in every show when she gets to dust off Fallin'. "I drag it around like a damn badge of honor. So many people told me that that song in particular would never work. 'It's too urban, it's too black, it'll never cross over.' The fact that it was successful told me one thing: Nobody knows anything," she says. "A lot of those people who doubted are out of jobs now," she adds. Keys will...
...competition to provide a platform for application development around IP telephony--IBM through its Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing product, and Microsoft through Windows XP on the desktop, Windows CE for wireless and its Windows and Live Communications Servers. Many analysts believe that when the dust clears, VOIP hardware will become a commodity, made by a firm like Dell, while a few communications companies will have their hand in the software pie--and that Microsoft and IBM may be calling the shots over the long term...
...felt confined by the work. So she joined WorldTeach and now instructs Marshall Islands high schoolers in science. At 75, she's handling myriad problems, from logistical (her science books crumble in the salt air) to physical (the school has no janitor, so she swabs floors, sweeps coral dust and empties trash bins in her classroom) to intellectual (though she's a science instructor, her students' difficulty with English means she also teaches ESL). "I really believe that because I must use both my body and my mind in this endeavor, I have probably kept myself in greater mental...