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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor currently teaching at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), was offered a joint professorship in the women's studies committee and the history department last week...
...artists met in 1982 and created a joint exhibition on the theme of peace. The event's organizers acquired the mixed-media canvasses from the Meridian International Center in Washington...
...renewed romance with renewable energy among governments and corporations, especially since oil remains relatively cheap? Shell International Petroleum in London, which forecast the oil shocks of the 1970s, predicts that renewable power, particularly solar, will dominate world energy production by 2050. Japan's electronics giant Canon has formed a joint venture with Michigan's Energy Conversion Devices to commercialize solar technology. Enron, Germany's Siemens and scores of other companies, including aerospace firms, engineering giants and utilities, are also exploring opportunities to plug into the renewable-energy business. Is this collective corporate madness? Perhaps not. The world has changed...
...called Baby Bells), the major long-distance phone companies, the big cable-TV operators and a bunch of cellular-phone start-ups. When the dust settled, the biggest player on the field -- the partnership of AT&T and McCaw Cellular Communications -- was being challenged by two other behemoths: a joint venture formed by Sprint and a trio of cable TV operators; and a foursome of Baby Bells made up of Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, US West and the cellular spin-off of Pacific Telesis. After being wooed and spurned by a variety of players, MCI, the second largest long-distance carrier...
...trouble collaborating. The two agreed in 1991 to sign on with Motorola in the venture that produced the chip at the heart of both the Power Mac and IBM's long-awaited Power PC. But analysts say conflicts within IBM's personal-computer unit over whether to pursue a joint strategy have prevented the company from keeping pace with Apple: while that company has shipped some 600,000 Power Macs since March, IBM is still waiting for software companies to develop additional programs for its Power PC and is not expected to launch the machine in the general market until...