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Giving back is the impetus for a lot of these older hobbyists. David Rumsey, 59, spent two decades collecting antiquarian maps. In 1996, having amassed a remarkable 150,000 maps, Rumsey realized he wanted to leave some sort of legacy. He decided to put the collection on the Internet, and so far has scanned and cataloged 9,000 maps at www.davidrumsey.com one of the largest such online collections in the world...
...reaction to the Iraqi situation and the proliferation of recruits to global terrorism or of terrorist groups. Many of these groups continue to fight in their own countries or regions as well as to espouse global terrorism. The indigenous resistance in Iraq could grow and provide an impetus for the growth of global terrorism. But you have to be careful not to lump all of global terrorism under one corporate terrorist group led by one terrorist CEO. What makes terrorism so dangerous is that it's so diffuse...
...reinvests in its glitchy power grid. ABB claims more than 60% of the market for the electric-transmission and -distribution equipment that needs renovation or replacement. "This isn't going to happen overnight," says Randy Schrieber, vice president of ABB's U.S. Power Technologies division. "But the impetus that the utility companies have shown from the blackout bodes well for us." This promising news and the streamlining instituted by Jurgen Dormann, the German CEO who was imported last year to save the nearly bankrupt company, have provided a jolt to ABB shares. Their price rose 75% from June to September...
Even then, Kane says, the impetus for change will have to come from University Hall, or the students...
BIOTERRORISM This is the area where our defenses most need a quick fix. Smallpox vaccines haven't improved much since the 1960s. Until 9/11, few drug companies felt the economic impetus to develop costly antidotes to all-but-conquered infections and ailments. Viagra was a sexier sell. Smallpox was considered to be a "market you hope will never exist," says Alan Goldhammer of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America...