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...TIME last January, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield said that there was, for a long time, a lot of uncertainty within Yahoo about whether it was a tech company or a media company. He noted that before Semel joined Yahoo, there had been some drifting and ambiguity about its mission. Recently, though, Butterfield said, Semel had focused Yahoo on being a communications and communities company. That's where it remains today, according to the company's mission statement, and that's where Yang and Decker are likely to focus. "What he missed was the emergence of Google and the strength...
...delegation is about to wrap up a three-week mission to examine security procedures along the Lebanon-Syria border and will conclude that much needs to be done to tighten border security. That could spur U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon to recommend dispatching a U.N. observer mission to monitor the porous frontier. Such a decision will anger Damascus, which has repeatedly stated its opposition to an international presence along its border with Lebanon. It will further add pressure on the Palestinian bases, which are linked to Syria via numerous remote trails that criss-cross the mountainous border. The Lebanese...
...large employers have one, up from 56% three years ago. And the new wellness program has teeth. It levies fees for not joining, assigns workers to risk categories, rewards them for improving and sics personal coaches on employees to hound them into better habits. Some employers take the mission so seriously they're telling workers to get well or get lost...
...company declines to comment, saying only that it "supports the mission and values of the United States Armed Forces." But Garrett says the timing was no coincidence: he lost his job because of his military status. If true, that would violate a 1994 federal law. So Garrett sued Circuit City, only to see it spring yet another surprise...
...space race by launching the satellite Sputnik. Thanks to the frantic efforts of U.S. officials to match that feat, aerospace engineer and longtime Caltech professor Homer Stewart was hired to help develop a similarly impressive craft. With guidance from Stewart-- who later worked on early planning for the Apollo mission--the U.S. sent into orbit its first successful satellite, Explorer I, in January 1958. Stewart...