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...curses his lot. It's the March 2001 meeting of First Tuesday - a monthly soirée at which entrepreneurs and venture capitalists exchange war stories and business cards - and Garreau is on the prowl. He needs an investor to provide between $400,000 and $700,000 to launch Goodycash.com, his Internet gambling venture. Garreau casts his eye hopefully around the red-carpeted room, sizing up the dwindling number of investors in dark suits who continue to attend this once red-hot networking event. But none approach him. "It's gotten worse and worse," he laments of his search...
...meantime, airlines might consider the implications of developments in modern air travel when it comes to passengers keeping their cool. Starting next month, at least two U.S. airlines are planning to launch direct flights from New York to Hong Kong. Estimated time aloft: 15 hours, 40 minutes - one of the world's longest scheduled services. "What are you going to do with people for 16 hours in these conditions?" asks Bor. "There must be a threshold beyond which reasonable, compliant behavior will be challenged." Better fasten your seat belts...
...national sport began with the same dot-com, which sent well-known cricketer Manoj Prabhakar and some of their own journalists out with spy cameras to meet leading players and officials and get them talking about all the sleazy dealings. And what they uncovered forced the government to launch an FBI-type investigation, which led to some of India's leading cricketers, such as Ajay Jadeja and Mohammed Azharuddin, being punished for match-fixing...
...possibility of a renewed Cold War arms race because Russia is no longer the military superpower that it once was. But such overconfidence in U.S. primacy has already been contradicted by recent developments. In response to Washington's uncompromising stance on the NMD, Russia has begun to test-launch its intercontinental ballistic missiles and it has warned that it will equip its hard-to-detect Topol-M missile with multiple warheads if Washington goes ahead with the NMD system. Although it can scarcely afford to pay its soldiers and although its armed forces are barely a carcass...
Harvard College will launch its first venture in distance learning tomorrow with Harvard at Home, an online learning website that will offer alumni users a chance to explore academic topics from ancient Greek poetry to the physics of fluids...