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...fast-paced new book, Killer Instinct (St. Martin's; 406 pages), Finder spent months interviewing staff members at technology giant NEC and other plasma-TV makers. The novel's hero, Jason Steadman, 30, is a sales exec at Entronics, a fictional Japanese-owned corporation. Although Steadman is a devotee of military-style business books, he's no warrior on the corporate battlefield--until he meets Kurt Semko, a former special-forces officer who did a stint in Iraq. "He's everything Gordy [his boss] and all these other phony tough guys pretend to be," Steadman thinks. "Sitting in their Aeron...
...annals of identity theft, this may be hard to beat: after a two-year investigation, Japanese electronics manufacturer NEC revealed last week that counterfeiters had effectively ripped off the company's entire brand. Factories in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong were allegedly involved in a sophisticated piracy ring that produced around 50 different types of electronic equipment, including DVD and MP3 players, which the counterfeiters then hawked as NEC products. The pirates even went so far as to design their very own line of fake NEC goods. The fact that NEC hadn't designed them didn't stop irate buyers...
Aeppli, now 48, attended M.I.T., where he got a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, and went on to work at Bell Labs, the legendary research arm of AT&T. Then he moved on to the NEC research laboratory, outside Princeton, N.J., as a senior research scientist. But while industrial labs used to be well-funded havens for freewheeling scientific inquiry, says Aeppli, "my career was limited because opportunities to lead were very few." So he left for an academic job in Britain. He now holds a chair in physics at University College London and also directs the London Center for Nanotechnology...
...conservatory, where they can study with expert teachers of their instrument and be motivated by the company of other performers? Or go the liberal arts route and continue their non-performance studies?This fall, six students did not have to decide, as Harvard and the New England Conservatory (NEC) launched a joint program for undergraduates. Although the joint curriculum is still tiny, it may well be an answer to the prayers of Harvard musicians who have struggled to obtain institutional support for their performance training.A LONG TIME COMINGYale College currently offers a joint program with Yale’s Graduate...
...With 99 percent of the ballots counted, 1971 KSG alumna and former World Bank economist Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf leads with 59.6 percent of the popular vote, although Liberia’s National Election Commission (NEC) will not officially call the election until tomorrow...