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...says Nancy Floyd, head of the alternative energy?focused venture-capital firm Nth Power, which also has invested in Imperium Renewables. Like Tobias, Silicon Valley stalwarts who helped power the IT revolution see clean tech as an investment opportunity that could have no ceiling - and that comes with the side benefit of potentially saving the world. Vinod Khosla, famous for being a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has put massive bets on biofuels, while his former partners at leading venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (Kleiner Perkins) have belatedly followed in a big way, investing more than $270 million...
Dave Isay: I was a radio documentary producer for public radio for about 20 years. I did a documentary about 15 years ago with two kids growing up on the south side of Chicago, in a housing project. I gave them tape recorders and had them record a diary of their life for one week, and do interviews with family members and friends. And I saw when I gave these kids the tape recorders - when, for instance, one of the kids crawled into bed with his grandmother with a tape recorder - that the microphone gave him the license...
...Huckabee plays bass guitar for his band, the Capitol Offenses, and has even opened for Willie Nelson. Most importantly, however, both men are extremely likable. Huckabee is as funny as Clinton is empathetic, and has a way of connecting with voters that no one else on either side of the aisle—save maybe Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)—can claim to possess. This goes a long way toward moderating his image as a social conservative crusader. His likeability somehow makes it less scary to many voters when he compares abortion to the Holocaust or says...
...catch-all excuse for politics on campus needs to end if the political patient is to come off the table with a new lease on life. Unfortunately, for now, it seems that the “Institute” side is handily outweighing the “Politics?...
...breezy November night, Yan etches Chinese characters across most of the side of City Hall. They read "Save Queen's Pier" (an ironic appeal on behalf of a now demolished landmark), and the reason he can write them with impunity is because they are drawn using a laser pointer in high-intensity light - not spray paint. By standing on the roof of a parking lot across the street, he also avoids any danger of trespassing. When he's done, Yan erases the words by clicking a button on the laser pointer, connected to a laptop and projector at his feet...