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...contest, whose winners were announced at an awards ceremony at the Faculty Club last night, gave away $10,000 in prizes. For the first time the awards were divided into two categories: the for-profit business category and the non-profit “social enterprise” group...
...first prize in the for-profit category went to Jimmy Surf, an Internet privacy tool. The software screens users from pop-ups and protects them from being monitored on the Internet. For example, lists of recently viewed websites are kept secret. The company’s website, jimmysurf.com, already has 600 subscribing users...
...winner on the non-profit side, Mackie Dougherty ’03, who is also a Crimson editor, developed an online Internet tutoring program that links Harvard students with high school students in the Boston area...
...that the cyclical nature of the energy business has just this quarter turned around and bitten the entire industry on the rump. With the suffering global economy keeping prices down all winter, first-quarter earnings season has hardly been a great one for BP (profits down 57 percent year-over-year), ChevronTexaco (down 70 percent), Conoco (down 84 percent) or ExxonMobil (down 58 percent). And the oft-quoted Marathon Oil? Net income in Q1 2002 was down 87 percent from 2001, due primarily to - as was the case for all of the above - reduced profit margins for refined crude products...
Since the summer of 2000, 22 high school sophomores and juniors from around the country have participated each year in the Harvard program, which is run by the non-profit Quest Scholars organization and focuses on environmental studies. The program is currently run out of Stanford University, where it was first founded...