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Significantly, Semel (who declined TIME's request for an interview) is getting Yahoo! to decide what it wants to be when it grows up. "There's always been some ambiguity about whether it's a tech company or a media company," says Stewart Butterfield, Yahoo!'s director of product management and co-founder of the photo site Flickr, which Yahoo! acquired in March 2005. "But there's been a shift in the internal messaging. I never hear execs refer to Yahoo! as a media company. A year and a half ago, there wasn't a satisfying articulation of what...
...Hotel Vintage House, hotelvintagehouse.com, in Portugal, lessons about port are held in the wine shop on request. The classes, which cost $23 and typically last 90 minutes, use various samples of this fortified wine to show how, say, a white port differs from a tawny or a vintage is unlike a late-bottled vintage...
DIED. Dale Noyd, 73, decorated Air Force captain and longtime Air Force Academy teacher who in 1966 drew worldwide attention as a humanist and conscientious objector to one war: Vietnam; of emphysema; in Seattle. After the Air Force refused his request to resign his commission based on his belief that the war was illegal and immoral, he filed a suit against the Pentagon that the Supreme Court declined to hear. Around the same time, he was court-martialed for refusing to train a pilot destined for Vietnam, sentenced to a year in jail and dishonorably discharged...
...Such structure will be critical to the initiative’s impact long-term success, providing stability and the authority to direct it coherently.Most research at Harvard is funded through external grants, but faculty recruiting, new equipment and space, and lab renovations are all funded by Harvard based on requests by department chairs. Departments are less likely to expend resources recruiting scholars who work on the periphery of their respective fields—but these are precisely the scientists Harvard needs if it is to be a leader in cross-disciplinary research. Operating independent of the departments, HUSEC will...
...Harvard University has one of the most comprehensive campus sustainability programs in the country,” the report said. The institute largely saved its criticism of Harvard for a section on endowment transparency. “Detailed proxy voting records are available to the public upon request,” the report said. “Information on endowment holdings, however, is only available to the board and senior administrators.” The report rated the 100 richest American and Canadian universities on their environmental sustainability practices, examining both endowment and campus initiatives. Dartmouth College, Stanford University...