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...With a circulation of about a quarter of a million, it reaches into the business world out of an academic context. So, like the Business School, the Review is sort of a hybrid between the business world and the academic world," he said...
People may one day look back and wonder why mobile phones and PDAs were ever separate. It's sensible to have your contacts list, diary and other crucial personal data stored in the one item you never leave home without?your cell phone. In recognition of the obvious, hybrid phone-PDAs such as Handspring's Treo began arriving in Asia this year. Now the xda, a versatile combo from British company mm02?a wireless spin-off from BT?may move the multipurpose devices closer to the mainstream...
...took time--and a feeling of not quite belonging at an Asian students' club--for Ferronato to finally realize that she is neither Japanese nor white. She is both. "Now I believe in the theory of hybrid vigor," she says. "A specimen derived from two different species has the strongest traits of both sides...
...plants, and theories are not proofs. Sacramento, as a city, is still searching to find its best self, its strongest traits. Single-race parents of mixed-race children can offer guidance to their kids but not always full understanding. Sacramento is on a similar, unchaperoned journey. Will hybrid theory hold? Who can tell? But the blossoms will be something...
Sure, I've seen some improvements since Rio. In my home city of Vancouver, most people put out their recycling boxes. The organic grocery and cafe on Fourth Avenue is flourishing. Bikes are popular, and there are a few gas-electric hybrid cars gliding around. But as this new century begins, my twentysomething generation is becoming increasingly disconnected from the natural world. We buy our drinking water in bottles. We eat genetically modified organisms. We drive the biggest cars ever. At the same time, we are a generation aware of the world--of poverty and social imbalance, the loss...