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...next three years. But it wasn't just flashbacks to that meltdown that initially kept venture capitalists cool on clean tech. Starting up an Internet company required relatively low levels of capital - at least before you started buying your employees massage chairs - and dangled the possibility of a quick and lucrative payoff. Cracking the energy sector, with its powerful incumbent companies and forbiddingly high capital costs, requires a more patient investor. "There may be some VCs willing to finance a $100 million project plant, but most can't," says Howard Berke, a veteran tech entrepreneur and co-founder...
...gave the Crimson a 59-58 lead on a Claire Wheeler free throw with 6:43 left in the game. Over those four minutes, Hallion scored eight of her game-high 19 points, had three steals and set up Wheeler’s trip to the line with a quick pass into the post...
...least four, “grown” means at least a full year longer in Spain than it does in the U.S. During the bullfight itself, which usually lasts about 15 minutes, the bull is lanced, barbed, and eventually stabbed between the shoulder blades. Usually the kills are quick and clean. The first one that I saw was not; the bull vomited blood for a good five minutes before dying. Once dead, the bull is slaughtered and eaten...
...such animal rights groups that declare bullfighting “cruelty towards animals” and asking myself: Do I agree with them? And I realized that the answer is no. I don’t know who could really say whether two years in a feedlot and a quick metal rod to the head is better, overall, than three years running free and 20 minutes of pain. Neither, however, do I agree with Hemingway; during the corrida that I attended (a corrida includes six individual fights), I saw very little of art and honor, but a lot of slaughter...
...netted two quick free-throws to pull Harvard within eight before exploding for two consecutive steals in the backcourt and a pair of fast break layups all within one minute. When Hallion’s work was done, the Crimson stared up at a mere 55-51 deficit. Only 32 seconds had passed since Hallion stepped to the line for her first free throw...