Word: dyson
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...draft boards. Sure enough, 19 teams passed on him before the Vikings scored one of the biggest steals in recent drafts. (The Bengals passed on Moss twice, selecting linebackers Takeo Spikes and Brian Simmons.) Only the Titans took a receiver in those first 20 picks, making Utah's Kevin Dyson the answer to a trivia question...
...Latypovs have U.S. patents for their virtual sphere and the motion capture system at its heart. The virtual studio is awaiting a patent. Their technology is "awesome," says Internet doyenne Esther Dyson. So why hasn't the five-year-old company thrived...
...Other Russian companies are establishing headquarters in the West. Alexander Galitsky, who honed his technical skills on Russian spy satellites, took his first stab at entrepreneurship in launching Elvis+, a company specializing in wireless computer connectivity. When he created Trustworks Systems (www.trustworks.com), which makes network security solutions, Dyson advised him to set up shop in the West to better access financial markets. Now based in Amsterdam, Trustworks has raised $23 million, most of it Western capital...
...Internet, it is run by an unelected board of directors and is not accountable to the public in the same way that governmental bodies must be. The directors may be very qualified; they include former Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson, and the board is led by Esther Dyson, a respected thinker on Internet issues. However, qualification is not the same as democratic choice. Although the corporation claims to exercise no governmental authority, given its position as a standards-setting organization in an area in which governments have abdicated control, the public interest demands that it become a representative and democratic...
...energy supply in the region. Coming a week after a brief blackout knocked out 140 customers on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side--and a year after a major one crippled an entire Washington Heights neighborhood for 19 hours--the admission further sullied Con Ed's bad reputation. John Dyson, chairman of Mayor Rudy Giuliani's council of economic advisers, expressed the official outrage: "It's hard to believe a rate increase is justified [in light of] the energy outages...