Word: michigan
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...International Space Station for those great views of the home planet may have to wait. Meanwhile, Kodak and NASA are offering the next best thing over the Web. Next month they will begin selling digital photos shot by real U.S. astronauts from space shuttles, like this one of Lake Michigan. Choose from some 500 images, $14 to $30 apiece, at earth.jsc.nasa.gov
Only a few years ago, when Sunil Gupta, director of the University of Michigan's Hermes project, a study of commercial uses of the World Wide Web, talked to companies about marketing to seniors on the Internet, they were interested but noncommittal. They preferred to wait, they said, for "the right moment." Now, says Gupta, "it's come...
Frequent traders can also miss out on juicy profits, as Ron Garrett, who buys and sells stock while shaving, has painfully discovered. Garrett, professor of engineering at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, bought computer maker Unisys for $5 a share some time ago, only to dump it a few months later when it failed to show a quick gain. "If I didn't have easy access [to trading] maybe I wouldn't have jumped so fast," Garrett says of his sale of Unisys, which closed last week at $23 a share...
Past Resident and Race Relations Tutors --Naomi Andre Assistant Professor of Music, University of Michigan Former Resident Tutor and Race Relations Tutor, Winthrop House --Lory J. "Tomni" Dance Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland Former Resident Tutor and Race Relations Tutor, Pforzheimer House --Christina Gomez Instructor of Sociology and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies, Dartmouth College Former Resident Tutor, Mather House --David M. Porter Assistant Professor of Management, the Anderson School at UCLA Former Resident Tutor and Race Relations Tutor, Mather House...
...Whatever the impact on American pride, the deal is a bonanza for shareholders -- especially Kirk Kerkorian, the reclusive 81-year-old who owns 13.8 percent of Chrysler. Back in 1990, he was derided for his interest in the once-struggling Michigan firm's stock. Now, if shareholders and governments on both sides of the Atlantic agree to the merger, he will reap a satisfying $5 billion payoff -- more than triple his original investment. Who says you shouldn't throw money at Motown...