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...scattered houses is disturbed only by giant cranes, cement mixers and trucks piled up with white sand. Buildings of glass and steel are rising all over, as Bangalore's fast-expanding outsourcing industry radiates far beyond the city. Perhaps the most impressive spot in Whitefield is the campus of SAP Labs. The main building, with its comfortable sofas and a sunny atrium, is a sumptuous workplace by Indian standards...
...bitter 18-month takeover battle during which former PeopleSoft head Craig Conway compared Larry Ellison, Oracle's aggressive CEO, to Genghis Khan; in Pleasanton, California. Oracle closed the $10.3 billion deal after repeated rebuffs, making it the number two player in the lucrative business-applications industry behind Germany's SAP...
Where did Harvard go wrong? According to WWD, a conservative college-wide uniform of “popped-collar polos, barn jackets and loafers for women and men” left Harvard in the dust. Depressingly, WWD chose a fictional Jenny Cavalleri in the soaked-with-sap Academy Award-winning Love Story as Harvard’s best fashion moment...
...band finished with fan favorite “Man on the Moon,” on which Stipe openly invited the crowd to sing along, as if they hadn’t been doing so all along. Surprisingly, Andy Kaufman’s death elegy did little to sap the mood from the night: When the lights came up many in the audience looked completely shell-shocked by the two-hour set’s incessant energy...
...sensor-loaded canisters known as dropwindsondes, sleek probes that take continuous readings of wind speeds, temperature, pressure and humidity as they parachute down. By combining the data obtained by multiple dropwindsondes, computer models can recon- struct the environment both inside and outside a hurricane, identifying conditions that feed or sap its strength or steer it in a particular direction. As a result, five-day hurricane-track forecasts are as accurate today as three-day forecasts were 15 years...