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...former Wired columnist took a leave from academia last year to build a computer - a laptop so cheap that developing countries could buy them by the millions to help their kids leapfrog into the 21st century. It's an ambitious project, but the charismatic Negroponte has a persuasive pitch and a knack for fund raising. With the support of the U.N., his so-called $100 laptop quickly found backing from, among others, Google, Red Hat, Advanced Micro Devices and Nortel. His team is still making prototypes, but a finished motherboard was delivered in April. A wind-up crank has been...
Trust is terrific, but for the Sirota group, enthusiasm is the must-have for success. The Purchase, N.Y., consultancy calls it the foundation of company morale, talent retention, productivity, customer satisfaction and even higher stock prices. The consultants pitch themselves as enthusiasm builders, using methods like creating a "partnership culture" of shared business goals and joint decision making, and job-security policies like making layoffs the last choice, not the first...
...said. “You have to have some finesse stuff. But it wasn’t comfortable play calling.”That came only after Lehigh had shown some trickery of its own. The Mountain Hawks attempted a reverse option on their opening drive, but fumbled the pitch.“We thought we could get some big plays off the misdirection,” Coen said.Lehigh also got a 38-yard completion from wide receiver Mike Fitzgerald to Lee Thomas, which set up a field goal that put Lehigh ahead 17-7.But a two-point loss left Coen...
...love to give a fearlessness boost to all the security moms in America who last election were taken in by the Rovian fear-mongering rhetoric. Fear is a powerful, universal emotion - always there to be exploited, and has been a frighteningly effective sales pitch for the White House. That's why we need a major counteroffensive - a wide-ranging campaign to help spread fearlessness so as to inoculate the country against this shameful campaign strategy. Otherwise, we're going to once again succumb to our lizard brains and keep voting our fears - even as our logical brains tell us that...
...every G.I. was as gung-ho as Sarra. In a no-draft America, young people joined the service to get into college, or out of the ghetto, and recruitment painted a grand canvas of career opportunities. Killing, getting killed - this was not part of the pitch. Basic training drilled the killing game into young brains. Teach them to treat the enemy as you would a sniper in Grand Theft Auto. Instill the reflex to fire at a moving target. Foster team spirit with marching songs. Instead of the golden oldie "I don?t know but I been told...," have them...