Word: entrepreneurism
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...very concerned about microbusinesses and micro loans,” Alvarez says. “Rubin really saw a need to focus on the needs of the small entrepreneur and cared about cities...
...colleges confront a new century, many of their leaders have proclaimed distance learning the wave of the future. Last year, for instance, a high-tech entrepreneur pledged $100 million to begin an “Ivy League-quality” university on the Internet, free of charge. Harvard is not immune to the trend: this year the business school decided to offer online courses, and the College may eventually follow suit...
...Stuart Kauffman--philosopher, medical doctor, evolutionary biologist and entrepreneur--all these problems underscore a single phenomenon: complex, self-organizing systems continuously adapt to and change with their environments but do so in ways that are impossible to predict. It's a head scratcher. In a universe damned by entropy to gradual dissolution, things sure seem pretty well put together. So, how is it that evolving systems as diverse as the biosphere, your immune system or the global economy have grown from nothing into organizations of imponderable complexity...
...John Malkovich, which is handy because he uses Malkovich's credit cards SWEDISH ARMED FORCES To cut overtime pay, Sweden will have a daytime-only navy. God help the Swedes if their shores are attacked by vampires in rowboats ELLEN DEGENERES Returns to TV with sitcom about a gay entrepreneur. It's about time: We're sick of all those shows about morose entrepreneurs...
...rise of small industries (back when industries could be small) in publishing, foreign-film distribution and off-Broadway production. Grove Press, Janus Films, Circle in the Square: even today these names have the aura of heroism about them. They located the nexus of the questing consumer and the adventurous entrepreneur...