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...recent years, much of higher education's focus has turned to technology, as emphasized by the recent selection of Silicon Valley entrepreneur John L. Hennessy as Stanford's next president. Rudenstine's successor may well lean towards fields of science and technology...
...Panama, Swedish-Panamanian entrepreneur Nils Petterson is set to open @Altec Cyber Park, Latin America's first hosting provider, which will be able to store 600,000 different sites on its 10,000 servers. For the first time, Latin Americans won't have to waste precious minutes reaching computers in Europe or the U.S. for websites stored there. Access, says Petterson, will be 300 times as fast and 50 times as cheap. Both these projects are helping build an Internet backbone that will speed up data transfer and bring down the cost of metered calls. New satellite and cable technologies...
...Prima Donna: Hard to pronounce and harder to ignore, Fusaichi Pegasus comes with regal breeding, a hefty price tag, and the attitude of an impatient diva. Bought by the Japanese entrepreneur Fusao Sekiguchi for $4 million as a yearling, the prohibitive favorite enters the Derby on a four-race winning streak, including an overpowering four-length victory in the Wood Memorial April 15 at Aqueduct. Fusaichi Pegasus has been likened to Secretariat so often that the comparison has acquired the resonance of clich...
Aida Alvarez '71 has already been a journalist, an entrepreneur and a politico. Now she is seeking yet another job, a seat on the Board of Overseers...
...academic community took notice two weeks ago when Stanford chose a Silicon Valley entrepreneur as its 10th president. John L. Hennessy is currently Stanford's provost. Soon to be the school's first president with an engineering background, he is the co-founder of a successful microprocessor company, MIPS Computer Systems--and he's wealthy enough to never work again...