Word: labs
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...very day that former Creative Artists Agency shogun Michael Ovitz was falling on his ears at Disney, his old outfit was literally rolling out the red carpet for a key element of its strategy to rule tomorrow's Tinseltown. Last Thursday marked the unveiling of the CAA/Intel Media Lab, CAA's bid for a thick slice of the growing PC-software pie and the strongest indicator to date that Hollywood and Silicon Valley's marriage of convenience might turn into true love after all. "We are all, like it or not, surfers on that growing [high-tech] wave," CAA president...
That will be music to Andy Grove's ears. Grove, CEO of microchip colossus Intel, has a clear aim in partnering with CAA on the media lab: plant the "content community" with seed capital and hope like hell something grows. His $16 billion company is ramping up production capacity to the tune of $3.5 billion a year. But how exactly, Grove wonders, is Intel going to persuade people to drop another $3,000 each time a new, extra-ultra-powerful PC gets invented, instead of sticking with last year's merely ultra-powerful model? "You can't push 100 million...
Since the start of renovation in early June, HSA dealt with an oil spill under the building and had to remove lead paint and asbestos from the original structure. Explosive chemicals were also found in the basement, remnants from an old chemistry lab which was part of the high school that used to be located in the building...
...Filling the specimen cup at the doctor's office may not be worth the effort. A study finds that many common LAB TESTS performed during regular checkups--urinalysis, blood-count measures--result in a change of treatment only 1% to 3% of the time...
...points out on its tour, that third book on the Harvard shield is turned down for a reason. I don't know why the athletic fields are across the river, but I do know why we have them. It is to remind us after a long week of inconclusive lab results and varying literary interpretations how great it feels to be right, how wonderful to win. To reverse the sentiments of some early Ivy League athletes (who thought the privilege was theirs, just in being able to attend such a prestigious school aided by their ability), it is my privilege...