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...enterprising, Harvard-educated Internet startup founder like yourself has a bright future. What is your exit strategy? A) Corporate buy-out. Earn a six-figure salary as CEO, hire a manager, dump your equity and spend the rest of your days playing Microsoft Golf 2000; B) IPO. Drum up hype, watch your stock price sky rocket, dump your equity and move to Vegas; C) Consolidate ownership. Convince your partners that the company is on the fast track to success, confess you are not the most qualified leader, sell your equity (for a reasonable price that includes "future earnings...
With all the hype and promotion Harvard doesn't always realize that the CityStep Ball is more than just an excuse to get dressed up. Its true purpose is to provide one of Harvard's unique organizations with the financing it needs to work effectively for the Cambridge community. This Friday, grab a date or go with a group of friends and enjoy an evening out of the Square, but keep in mind that the money you give supports an organization determined to improve the lives of our community's children...
...considered defense the "single most important problem for the president and Congress to deal with." The GOP can seek consolation in the poll's finding that the public considers Republicans significantly better equipped than Democrats to make military decisions. In an election year, it clearly behooves congressional Republicans to hype up the weaknesses of the nation's defense. George W. may have some angry words for his dad for letting the Germans tear down that wall 10 years...
...through the night on his mutant Methuselah. He feels that aging should now be studied as a disease, and he would love to spend his next career, he says, "unraveling the facts." But he hates to see the study of longevity being overblown by the press. "I hope the hype will not result in the same letdown as Nixon's all-out war on cancer." Even if there is a central clock, it may be harder to control than cancer...
Meanwhile, genetically engineered drugs will increasingly replace the scalpel for removal of tumors or cosmetic surgery like hair transplants. Indeed, after much hype and few results, gene therapy is finally making major strides--although not the way doctors thought it would. Once they hoped to cure diseases by repairing defective genes. Now it seems a lot easier to determine what proteins the broken genes should be making and replace them instead. Dr. Jeffrey Isner at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston has achieved remarkable results with a protein called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF2) in restoring circulation...