Word: silicon
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Every epochal moment in Pirates of Silicon Valley (June 20, 8 p.m. E.T.), TNT's smart new movie about the birth of the PC industry, comes complete with a similar backdoor irony. Pirates' writer-director Martyn Burke (who co-wrote HBO's caustic The Pentagon Wars) plants his story in the fertile ground of the baby boomers' art-vs.-commerce conundrum. "Steve Jobs' garage is the starting point of an entire culture," Burke says. "It got going in the early '70s, when the campuses were being occupied by antiwar protesters, but these guys--Jobs, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Wozniak...
...might not remember that the silicon-oxygen bond is one of the strongest there is," he said...
...those 10,000 men, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, drew an analogy between Wilson's dissertation on the silicon-oxygen bond and the new relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe...
Rumors in Silicon Valley and inside Microsoft abound that the sabbatical is the presentable public face that has been put on a very private ousting orchestrated by Microsoft's president, Steve Ballmer. According to one source, Myhrvold, once hailed as Bill Gates' favorite geek, has been given the golden boot for putting his outside interests before his job. (Not your usual geek, Myhrvold pursues paleontology, cosmology, zoology, Formula One car racing, gourmet cooking and piloting his $38 million Gulfstream jet.) For the past year, Myhrvold has seemed to be on an unofficial sabbatical, out of the office more than...
...Business. "For many women, entrepreneurship is viewed as a way to have a profession where you have some control over your life, which may or may not be true." But working for yourself, unlike landing a top corporate job, doesn't require an M.B.A. Just witness the success of Silicon Valley start-ups led by computer-science grads without a Finance 101 course to their name...