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...literally kill, but it is responsible for a significant amount of growth stagnation and suffering for poor nations. It is time that this topic moved from boardrooms into actual research and that existing research was converted into policy. Without this, the millennium development goals shall remain a pipe dream, yet another promise made to the next generation that is broken...
...able to better deal with congestion and plan new roads. Companies could eventually cash in too, says Michael R. Nelson, director of Internet technology and strategy at IBM. With this sort of network, insurers could spot high-risk drivers (and raise their rates), and hotels and restaurants could pipe ads into cars when they're nearby. Says Nelson: "There's real money to be made providing services to all those drivers in all those cars...
Springfest 2002 was considered a huge success—exponentially larger than it had been in recent years, with popular games like the Rocky Mountain Climb and Human Foosball replacing the low-budget Log Roll. The Verve Pipe and a collection of student bands serenaded the all-ages crowd...
Although the Verve Pipe did end up playing the event, the administration announced the following year that a professional band would not be allowed to perform at the upcoming Springfest. The UC could organize their own concert, but it would have to happen somewhere else, at another time. Since then, the University has not backed down on this policy...
These two events are not mere pipe dreams. Encouraged by the interest in social causes demonstrated by last summer's Live Aid concert for African famine relief, organizers are making careful plans and asking celebrities and ordinary people alike to participate in the two megahappenings...