Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There must be a better system, one that minimizes rejection and involves less competition and more goodwill. Here's one idea, at least for internships, fellowships and other non-essential positions. Application procedures for these spots could be conducted as follows: From the start, a clear minimum standard for all White House, say, you might need a certain high GPA, two strong letters of recommendation and a top-notch essay. The letters and essay would be subjectively read and considered as usual. But rather than being ranked and evaluated individually, one against the next, all applicants would be divided...
There are lots of exciting things happening in the world of computer technology. For example this month, 3Com announced that it will unveil a gigabit Ethernet hub. Netscape released the source code for its Web browser, and the Federal Communications Commission is flirting with the idea of taxing Internet telephony...
Vertex, founded by a Harvard graduate in 1989, is a pioneer in "structure-based drug design." In theory, the idea is plausible enough: if one knows the precise three-dimensional structure of an enzyme target, one can use a computer to design a perfectly complementary "small molecule drug" to jam into the enzyme and disable it, just as a locksmith can build a key from scratch to open a lock...
...Gore announced the donation and funding at a White House event this morning. "The Internet is revolutionizing our lives," Gore said, scaling a peak -- or at least a large hill -- of rhetorical obviousness. "It really is amazing how quickly this has happened." What's just as amazing is the idea that the Feds think $50 million will help, as Gore put it, make the Internet faster and more dependable. High tech firms have already been spending much more to figure out just that: Microsoft's R&D budget last year, for example, was a hefty $2.6 billion...
...increasingly redrawn to coincide with cultural ones: ethnic, religious and civilizational." At the same time, much of the world is being remade by a global economy that has linked political openness to economic growth. Democracy, always a moral high ground, turns out to be good for business. But the idea that we are moving toward a single global culture is both wrong and dangerous. Economic strength and social mobility will unlock a new, more complex balance of power as even simple ideas about how we live our lives come into question...