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There's a clear potential payoff for the town's few businesses. Otto Moe, general manager of financial software firm Uni Micro, says broadband access should cut costs. The company has 7,000 clients, most of them in Oslo, an hour away by plane. "Customers can now connect to our servers in Modalen for support or access to our databases," Moe says. Before broadband, the company had to maintain offices in Oslo and Bergen to handle customer relations. Now it's expanding in Modalen, adding a new building and more staff...
Republican National Committee spokesman Mark Miner insists anyone who sees gala contributions from the energy sector as a payoff is "misinformed." Indeed, nonenergy executives dominated fund raising for the Bush gala and will be in abundance at the Cheney dinner, for which there is no price of admission. And while previous donors of at least $175,000 will be present at Cheney's home, they have contributed nothing to the Bush bash the following night. Still, comparisons to the Clintons' use of the Lincoln Bedroom seemed inevitable. "Is the Vice President's mansion the latest perk?" asked a G.O.P. veteran...
...administration would never have granted a living wage as a payoff to protesters; the creation of a broadly representative committee, the moratorium on all outsourcing and the revisiting of an issue that three weeks ago the University had considered closed perhaps represent the best possible outcome the campus could have hoped for. We are very glad that PSLM has chosen to continue its fight for a living wage outside Mass. Hall. Now is the time for students to redouble their efforts to make the case to the committee and the administration that Harvard should pay its workers what they deserve...
Christopher Warnock, 34, the CEO of ebrary.com (his dad heads Adobe), is betting that his pricing model will be more appealing. Copying or downloading files will cost only 15[Cents] to 25[Cents] a page--and the library will get most of the payoff. "It's totally accessible to everyone on the Internet. And no membership, no up-front costs," he says...
...specific changes in the body to yoga. The double-blind test, beloved of traditional researchers, is impossible when one group in a study is practicing healthy yoga; what is the control group to practice--bad yoga? Finally, the traditional funders of studies, the pharmaceutical giants, see no financial payoff in validating yoga: no patentable therapies, no pills. (Ornish's prostate-cancer study was funded by private organizations, including the Michael Milken Foundation...