Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remarkable plasticity of the brain has put scientists in hot pursuit of novel ways to treat a host of ailments. "What we are is a product of learning progressions in the brain," says Michael Merzenich, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, and a co-founder of Scientific Learning. "A lot of people are thinking about how to use intensive training to remediate the impairments of mankind...
...studies have "never been done with proper controls" to test its theories, argues psychologist Michael Studdert-Kennedy, chairman of Haskins Laboratories, a leading center for the study of speech and language at Yale University. Replies Paula Tallal, a neuroscientist at Rutgers University's Newark, N.J., campus and a co-founder of Scientific Learning: "What matters in the end is, does it work? Not, do we agree on theory...
...that low-cost enthusiasm and work-is-play lifestyle into publicly traded companies worth millions of dollars. And a number have succeeded: TheGlobe.com's chairman Michael Egan is worth about $200 million; StarMedia CEO Fernando Escuelas, 32, now has a net worth of $256 million. Josh Harris, chairman and founder of Pseudo.com stands to make millions when Pseudo goes public later this year...
...Post-it type notes throughout a website. Subsequent visitors who have also installed the software can read your messages, add comments or start their own discussion threads. The notes don't actually alter the underlying sites; they merely overlay them with a "transparency," to use nomenclature preferred by co-founder and CEO Eng-Siong Tan. And they cover everything from earnest commentary and rude invective to invitations to check out the poster's hot new home page...
Realizing I had better address my problem before it landed me a nickel in the can, I scheduled an appointment with Jim O'Connor, the founder of the Cuss Control Academy. Professor O'Connor is taking a break from teaching his two-hour, $45 classes to finish a book, which includes an entire chapter on the S word. However, he agreed to tutor me individually. O'Connor said I could use substitute words as a crutch, but advised employing a more positive, invective-free attitude. He suggested using shoot as a sort of cussing patch for the first few weeks...