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Free time at Harvard is precious commodity. Between studying, socializing and the rigors of everyday life, it might seem impossible to find time to explore the world outside of Boston--even outside of Harvard--during your short stay in Cambridge...
Free time at Harvard is a precious commodity. Between studying, socializing and the rigors of everyday life, it might seem impossible to find time to explore the world outside of Boston--even outside of Harvard--during your short stay in Cambridge...
...compelled to set up shop on pricey real estate in Manhattan's Silicon Alley or California's Silicon Valley, have to scrimp on the office space, using converted industrial lofts crammed with desks, T-1 lines and terminals. During the pre-initial public offering phase of a start-up, precious capital must be allocated to marketing and sales rather than rent and salaries, which contribute only to the burn rate--the monthly running expenses of an Internet company ticking toward ipo or implosion. For new-media employees, the workday is 16 hours, the workweek seven days. "Cyberspace is rife with...
...team of zoologists leaves this week for Beijing in hopes of finalizing the negotiations, which were complicated by the bombing of China's Belgrade embassy. Pandas are so precious to Chinese diplomacy that the premier must give his OK. Zoo officials estimate new pandas would each year bring an additional 400,000 visitors and $1.2 million in concession sales...
...countless introductory meetings in the fall. I wasn't horribly unhappy with life in high school, but I had learned after four years my own weaknesses, the particular defects of my personality I wanted to leave with my old name in Connecticut. Entering college is one of those precious few transition points in our lives where it really is possible to refashion our identities, and I was intent on taking advantage of it. No one from my high school was going to Harvard, and no one had for several years, which was one of the reasons I chose to come...