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...clean energy investment fund worth $250 million. The idea behind Masdar - which organized the Future Energy Summit - is a radical one: prepare Abu Dhabi and the UAE to move beyond fossil fuels. "The UAE wants to be more than just an oil-producing country," says Marc Stuart, the co-founder of the carbon-trading firm EcoSecurities...
...Paying users are expected to rocket to 3 million by 2010, generating sales of at least $160 million. But fees are minimal compared with the $59 per month charged by the likes of eHarmony. "In China, if you charge money, you'll die fast," says Gong Haiyan, CEO and founder of the leading Web dating site, Jiayuan (formerly Love21cn). Chinese sites rely instead on online advertising and ticket sales from events such as speed-dating mixers that charge about $13 for admission (parents who tag along have to pay too). Another popular dating site, 915915.com.cn--in Chinese, the numbers sound...
...special interest groups, and globalization with students. The other spring 2008 IOP fellows are Bart Peterson, a former mayor of Indianapolis; Lois Romano, a political reporter at The Washington Post; Sile de Valera, a former member of the Irish National Parliament and the European Parliament; and David R. Zwick, founder and president of advocacy group Clean Water Action. The new IOP study groups will kick off in early February. —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...
Befitting his ever-active mind and lifestyle, Folkman died of an apparent heart attack in the airport en route to a scientific conference. "At 74, he was as vibrant as I remember him 20 years ago when I was in his lab," says Dr. William Li, director and co-founder of the Angiogenesis Foundation and a student of Folkman's in the 1980s. "He was bustling around, meeting colleagues, teaching students, and giving lectures...
...Berlioz is the founder of modern orchestration.” (Music...