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...Last week, the Big Fear gripped Silicon Valley big time. The always-optimistic entrepreneurs who thrive out here came down with a major case of the Pessimism Flu. The contagion was traced to a special meeting called by Sequoia Capital - the blue-chip venture firm - whose brains and money are behind just about any start-up of consequence. The message the VCs gave their young start-ups? Get profitable...
...thing, the grand design of conservationism is to create reserves, protected areas like national parks where wildlife can live free from the impact of human populations. That strategy has been overwhelmingly successful, but conservationists now fear that global warming could make those reserves meaningless, if animals that are accustomed to a different climate can't survive in them. "We're used to focusing on protecting real estate," says Schweiger. "Now we have to be able to make sure animals can move to safe areas...
Audience members asked Vowell questions ranging from her favorite TV shows to the state of history education in the United States. She expressed a fear that the school system wrings all the interest out of history...
...experts. Instead, no one seemed to think I had a problem. And perhaps there was good reason for this. Perhaps “Net Addiction” is not so much a constant danger that looms over people who know and use the internet as it is a fear of people who don?...
...proposals for improving safety. Following a string of crimes and community alerts in the first month of the semester, students have become more concerned about their security, but Harvard University Police Chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley and HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano downplayed fears of an extraordinary crime wave. “There is no crime wave here,” Catalano said, adding that students have become more aware and fearful because of HUPD’s advisories, which are mandated by federal law when there is a continuing threat to public safety...