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...bank has the deep pockets to fund expansion. Its initial $24.75 million stock offering was vastly oversubscribed. No wonder: funding green startups has become as popular in Silicon Valley as luxury SUVs, so New Resource has inside investors like Bob Hambrecht, managing director of WR Hambrecht & Co.; Daniel Yohannes, U.S. Bank's former vice chairman; and the founders of Sybase and Lotus Development...
...Some professors said that they remain wary about Harvard’s increasing attention to currently popular areas of research...
Einstein would later come close to these sentiments. But at the time, his leap away from faith was a radical one. "Through the reading of popular scientific books, I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of free thinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression...
...invite her to speak about the Union. In truthful representation of the British feeling, she herself said inviting her to speak about integration was like inviting “Genghis Khan to speak on the virtues of peaceful coexistence.” Even today, the EU is as popular in Britain as President George W. Bush is in America. Yes, it is that...
...Everyone grew up with it, everyone’s listened to it, they’re really popular, their music can cut across all sorts of boundaries,” Tanjeloff said. “We’re not going to isolate anyone with this pick...