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...city's port, spurs creativity. High culture and low, from staid to avant-garde - it's all come out of Merseyside. But nothing else has ever equaled the Beatles. Ringo and Paul McCartney (who will play there in June) are Liverpool's greatest living cultural ambassadors, and Ringo in particular is seen as the embodiment of the city's down-to-earth persona. "Ringo is exactly as he says on the tin," says musician and activist Bob Geldof...
...area where there were large markets that could benefit from innovation." Khosla hasn't held back - in the first nine months of 2007, Khosla Ventures participated in 14 deals worth nearly $70 million. He has spread his bets along a range of clean-tech sectors, with a particular focus on biofuel start-ups such as Range Fuels, which is close to commercializing biofuel out of agricultural residue like wood chips, rather than food crops. Nothing has paid off big for him yet - in fact, prices for corn-based ethanol, which Khosla has also invested in, crashed in 2007, largely...
...variety of language you spoke, it wasn’t a community that put you down because of the variety of language you spoke. It’s only when you come out of the community that you realize there are many different varieties [of English]. In that particular context, if they’re in that position, they have a much greater responsibility. To just say that it’s not standard English—that’s not really helpful. 12.FM: Your husband, Lawrence D. Bobo, is also an esteemed race sociologist. Do you consider yourselves...
While the Web site has used local political debates to open the Web polls for particular schools, the site’s questions become user-generated following sufficient use by students...
...logo on their ubiquitous fleeces at the mere mention of the word “camping,” I suffered from intense flashbacks of living in a teepee in the middle of the New Mexican desert with my bizarre family every summer of my childhood. But that particular sordid fact from my past, as well as pretty much everything else about me, I firmly intended to shove into the background so that my new persona as a normal, Gore-Tex-loving co-ed could take center stage. All it was going to take, I decided, was a little imagination...