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Billy Duarte arrives at Mather House at 5 p.m. In a large bag, he carries cigars of varying size, shape and nationality into his office. For a few hours he sits in his office listening to students who want to pick up a package, get into their rooms or register their complaints about poor plumbing. Billy has worked as the principal Mather security guard for the last three years. He has worked as a Harvard guard for the last 11. All evening, Billy eyes his bag. By 9 p.m., he has selected this evening's cigar, a strong and long...
...deduce what a company's Web address might be, it's history. "That's it," he says. "I might ask someone, but..." One target's Web site is unattractive and poorly designed, lacking basic information about management and investors. Shemmer sends them a curt e-mail telling them to shape up, then moves on. With practice, the culling goes quickly, Shemmer says. "There's a ton of shitty companies out there. It's like 80-20." Once he identifies a likely prospect, Shemmer places a call to the CEO for more information, then drafts a one-page summary...
...good as those of professional ad agencies, while they far surpassed the efforts of human amateurs. For instance, while a human suggested a picture of the walls of the Old City to promote a tennis tournament in Jerusalem, the computer proposed a domed mosque with the dome in the shape of a tennis ball...
...doing the planet any good, and our riverways may be getting the brunt of the abuse. Among the world's largest - and most traveled - waterways, the Yellow River (China), the Colorado River (U.S.) and the segment of the Nile River that runs into the Mediterranean (Africa) are in terrible shape, due mostly to agricultural and industrial run-off, as well as increased rates of evaporation. On the bright(er) side, the relatively sheltered Amazon (South America) and Congo (sub-Saharan Africa) are looking pretty robust. For the moment, anyway...