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...Friedman ’06 and Ming E. Vandenberg ’08 sent an e-mail out to every House Committee (HoCo) chair on campus, offering JetBlue’s “support” to any upcoming “stein clubs, formals, charities, plays, etc.” Friedman even told The Crimson that he wanted to get the airline involved in the Harvard-Yale football game. Think Judge Doom at the end of “Roger Rabbit”—eyes were wide with the possibilities for promotion, commerce...
...focus on one or two sectors, Apple does all of them at once. Apple makes its own hardware (iBooks and iMacs), it makes the operating system that runs on that hardware (Mac OS X), and it makes programs that run on that operating system (iTunes, iMovie, Safari Web browser, etc.). It also makes the consumer-electronics devices that connect to all those things (the rapidly multiplying iPod family), and it runs the online service that furnishes content to those devices (iTunes Music Store). If you smooshed together Microsoft, Dell and Sony into one company, you would have something like...
...most of us still have that love within us somewhere—otherwise, we probably couldn’t have made it here.5. Teach to learn and re-learn: In order to design a coherent and engaging curriculum, a teacher must literally take up the role of historian, physicist, etc. Teachers have to reconstruct and expand their own understanding of what they already know in order to convey it to their students. As Orin Gutlerner, director of the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program (UTEP), puts it, “A lot of people perceive K-12 teaching as an intellectually deadening...
...even mad. That’s amazing.” But the inherent creepiness was a little too “Minority Report” for me. First, the ad is talking to me, then it is stalking me, then the robots take over the world, etc., etc...
...trying to sell boats. In Springfield, Mo., another tournament bass-fishing legend, Johnny Morris, had established a mail-order company called Bass Pro to sell lures. Then, in 1978, Morris started a company called Tracker Marine that sold fully rigged bass boats (boat, motor, range finder, trolling motor, trailer, etc.) on a one-stop basis. Morris had opened a retail store on the site principally to give fishermen something to do when they came to Springfield to pick up their boats. In 1981, Morris changed outdoor retailing by establishing a combination sporting-goods store, museum and boat dealership that became...