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Former Fun Czar Zachary A. Corker ’04 is splitting his time between Cambridge and Seattle, juggling renovations of Loker Commons and launching a text message-based carpooling service. This week, Corker, along with college roommate Nicholas A. Shiftan ’04, launched a beta version of GOOSE, a company that uses SMS text messaging to facilitate carpooling in Seattle, Wash.Registered users send a text message to GOOSE, or 46673, indicating their location, their destination, and whether they are looking for a driver or a passenger. Within 10 minutes, the driver and one or more passengers receive...
...known industry pioneers is British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson who is moving the SpaceShipOne concept forward in a company called Virgin Galactic with plans to manufacture enough similar crafts to begin commercial operations from New Mexico in a few years. And after picking up the pieces from Monday's launch, UP Aerospace has scheduled nine more flights over the next year...
...Once the commercial guys like Branson or UP Aerospace perfect a reliable, low-cost spacecraft, the space frontier becomes officially open for business to pursue what until recently seemed impossible: Snag an asteroid into low-earth orbit to mine its minerals. Launch solar satellites to beam down all the cheap power we can use. Build space hotels for family tourism. "Whether it means flying a rocket to an inflatable hotel in low-earth orbit, these are far-fetched, fantasy things that are out there but suddenly become a little more real when you have private entrepreneurs trying to figure...
With sections called “Passions” and “Vanitas,” the newly-launched 02138 Magazine bills itself as the “Vanity Fair” for Harvard grads. The 120-page first issue was sent out free of charge to 50,000 alumni on Monday and was celebrated with a launch party at New York City’s Core Club. Financed by David Bradley of Atlantic Media Co., which publishes The Atlantic Monthly, 02138 hopes to gain the favor of the 320,000 graduates of Harvard University. The magazine was founded...
...issue that now worries the country's ruling ?lites is whether Nazarbayev, 66, has the courage to launch long-promised political reforms, delegating many of his powers to the now subdued Majlis (lower house of Parliament), Cabinet and judiciary. "Even if they were necessary to get the country to where it is now, authoritarian ways have exhausted themselves," says Asylbek Bisenbayev, formerly Nazarbayev's spokesman and top strategist...