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...Mexico State - not exactly an NCAA powerhouse. Carlesimo, once a successful college coach at Seton Hall University, had never meshed with pro players: in the 1990s, he failed in both Portland and Golden State, where he found himself on the receiving end of Latrell Sprewell's infamous choke hold. Randy Wittman was coaching a team that everyone expected to be cellar dwellers, and proved winner Eddie Jordan has had to deal with a raft of early-season injuries...
...conference, he announced the iPhone, which has become the hottest thing in the computer world. Tens of millions of people will own one by the end of next year; before the recession hit, some analysts predicted that as many as 45 million folks would buy one. (That figure may hold as Apple moves into Wal-Mart at the end of the month.) Even at the current rate, 1 billion applications for the device could be downloaded by the middle of next year. That alone could generate as much as $1 billion in new revenues from applications; never mind how many...
...obviously has brainpower to spare. But what really counts is the way he has chosen to use it over the past several years. As head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, part of the Department of Energy's network of research centers, Chu put his own research on hold to marshal the lab's efforts on climate change. In Chu, Obama will have an Energy Secretary who understands the existential threat posed by climate change - and who knows that we'll need technological leaps in the way we use energy to save our species. It's a myth "that...
...determine how they can operate most efficiently. At the last Faculty meeting, Smith asked professors to consider how they could cut 10 to 15 percent of their departmental budgets in anticipation of a FAS budget shortfall of at least $100 million. The day before, Smith had announced a hold on the bulk of current searches for tenure-track and tenured faculty. By early last week, the 50 authorized searches underway for new faculty were confirmed to have been cut to 15. Many staffers said they have not heard news of impending layoffs, and that the possibility seems slim?...
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