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...journey to the Roosevelt Room is the stuff of Silicon Valley legend. Born in St. Louis, Mo., he got his first tech job in 1974 as an Intel engineer and went on to become a prescient bankroller of such companies as Google, Compaq and Amazon.com He later helped fund TechNet, the valley's first major Washington lobbying effort, and became close friends with then Vice President Al Gore, who has since become a partner at Kleiner Perkins. Doerr's enthusiasm and vision have been welcomed by the Obama team, just as they were by the Clinton Administration. In a recent...
...worried openly about the value of China's dollar-denominated assets, including $895 billion in U.S. Treasury debt. He warned the U.S. not to depreciate its currency to boost trade, as it would hurt the value of Chinese-held assets. The U.S. depends on China's Treasury purchases to fund its budget deficit, which is forecast to exceed $1.5 trillion this year. Still, U.S. lawmakers are unlikely to give much credence to Wen's statement that he doesn't understand how a country could devalue its currency to boost trade. It is, after all, China's own policy...
...international trade of the bluefin. Japan has already said it would oppose the ban, but Tokyo faces an uphill battle. "A ban is the only possibility to prevent a total collapse of this species," says Sergei Tudela, Atlantic bluefin tuna expert for the World Wildlife Fund...
Noah E. Lewis—a staff attorney for the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund who has been deliberating with UHS and the insurance company on the inclusion of transgender surgeries in Harvard policies—says that the previous exclusion meant that only the most economically privileged people could access these treatments...
...fairy visitation," he says with a chortle. "I was just drawn to them, or maybe they were drawn to me." With the Celtic Tiger economy booming at the time, he didn't have much difficulty finding investors to pony up the money to fund the venture. "Every pitch meeting would begin with 10 minutes of laughter," O'Rahilly recalls. "But once they began to reflect, they realized it could be viable." (See pictures of new hope for Belfast...