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...media has become fascinated with Yahoo again over the last few weeks as it finally found a new CEO to run the company in the place of founder Jerry Yang who was part of the Microsoft foul-up. Carol Bartz was the head of Autodesk (ADSK) from 1992 to 2006. She deserves whatever credit she got for improving Autodesk's fortunes. The stock soared over the period that she ran the company. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...much to help make this nation live up to its promise,” said Katherine Lydon, the postmaster of the Cambridge Post Office. Issued by the United States Postal Service, the new stamp series pays homage to such civil rights giants as Oswald Garrison Villard, one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and assassinated NAACP official Medgar W. Evers in addition to Houston. Though a more general release celebration occurred in New York City, Saturday’s Cambridge event, held in the Zero Arrow Theatre, focused specifically on Law School graduate...
...this June. Earlier this year, LaBear received an offer from Arizona State University to head the newly-founded Virginia G. Piper Center for Personalized Diagnostics, where he was promised a sizeable research fund of $10 million and an 8,000 square-foot lab space to work with. LaBaer, the founder and current director of the Institute of Proteomics at Harvard Medical School, is one of a handful of innovators in the relatively new field of proteomics, the study of protein structure and function. He said that he wanted to accept the offer in order to focus more on his career...
Medpedia—an online collaborative medical encyclopedia affiliated with Harvard Medical School—debuted Tuesday after months of closed beta testing, receiving 12,000 unique visits on its first day, according to its founder. James M. Currier, the Web site’s founder and chairman, said that the encyclopedia solicits advice and articles from medical professionals, including HMS professors, in an effort to serve as an accessible, comprehensive source for health-related information, which he said involves too much paper-pushing and not enough technology at present. He said that 5,000 medical professionals signed...
There's an ancient, hand-cranked printing press in Schibsted's spanking modern lobby. Founder Christian Schibsted used this press to print his first newspapers in the mid-1800s. It stands as a poignant reminder not just of where the newspaper is coming from but where it's going. In the first nine months of 2008, the print version of the newspaper sold 290,000 copies a day on average, down 21,500 from the same period in 2007. Daily readership of the newspaper alone has dropped by close to half since 1997. Two years ago, in what seems...