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...across partisan divides and barriers of race. Obama’s contagious enthusiasm for political change has empowered our generation not to settle for business as usual, but rather to be the change that we desire to see in our world.Paul N. Rudatsikira, the founder of Africa Global Partnership Inc., travels the country advocating on behalf of the people of Africa...
...comes with owning a unique parcel of land surrounded by 360° water views. Others are seeking a more intimate connection to nature, a slower pace of life or the increasingly elusive senses of privacy and security. Interest spiked after the 9/11 attacks, says Chris Krolow, CEO of Private Islands Inc., a company specializing in island sales. There are an estimated 700 habitable private islands in the U.S., most located off the coasts of New York, Maine, New Jersey and Connecticut; in the Great Lakes region; along the shores of Florida and the Carolinas; and in the Pacific Northwest. The fact...
...said Joan S. Brugge, a professor of cell biology who sits on the Accelerator Advisory Committee. The fund has already helped one breakthrough—which emerged from the work of Harvard scientists Jose Halperin and Gerhard Wagner—enter a licensing agreement with Egenix, Inc, a New York-based biotechnology company. Kohlberg said that such agreements will help make the fund self-perpetuating because 20 percent of proceeds from licensing deals inked with help from the accelerator to replenish the pool of funds. According to Brugge, the areas funded had the potential of having the greatest impact...
...God—guitar-playing was in, and it was producing memorable songs. Nowadays we have canned bands like Nickelback and a slew of others who can’t even write their own music. Meanwhile, actual guitar gods are on the decline. In January of this year, Activision, Inc. announced that the “Guitar Hero” franchise had earned over a billion dollars in revenue in just 26 months. In 2007, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, one of the largest guitar manufacturers in the world, produced a revenue of only 196.3 million dollars.What...
...Diemen's Land, (Black Inc., 388 pages) historian James Boyce argues compellingly that such a story wasn't true for all settlers. His focus is "the ordinary people" of early Tasmania, which as Van Diemen's Land received nearly half of all convicts shipped to Australia. Settled in 1803, it was soon ignored by London (at war with France) and Sydney (busy keeping its own population fed and under control), and, short on food supplies, set about fending for itself. Which it did, as Boyce shows, very well. For where Sydney's thick coastal scrub thwarted hunters, Van Diemen...