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Shocking as it sounds, there are Internet professionals actually concerned with creating something besides catchy names and 300% annual stock returns. These are the "coders," or programmers, working 24/7 in Silicon Valley's fluorescent-lighted anthills. Code Rush follows doughnut-gobbling Netscape coders as they scramble to produce a new version of their Web browser and keep their company from being trampled by Microsoft. This no-frills hour is a valuable look at the hamster wheel of exhilarating and life-sucking work that powers the dot-com wealth generator...
...Mommy" is Commander Kathleen McGrath, who next week is expected to mark a historic first: she will be the first American woman ever to take a warship to sea. Back on land, women have already smashed through ceilings that once seemed to be made of unbreakable glass, from Silicon Valley to the State Department. But change has come more slowly to the hidebound military. Only 12 of the Navy's 220 admirals are women...
...year has covered George W. Bush, Chinese espionage and Kosovar refugees, also has a second story in this issue. "The Faces of India's Future" profiles four brave individuals who are working to change India. Last September, Ratnesar and Stein teamed up to write GetRich.com, an inside look at Silicon Valley e-commerce entrepreneurs seeking to make millions, fast. This week the pair takes us inside the do-it-yourself dotcom scene, where everyone from Stephen King to scruffy indies is using the Internet to distribute his own music, TV, film and books. Ratnesar is now based in London...
...Hollywood execs who had been rejecting the duo. "The goal is to get it on the Internet and get it on a network," says Dahlgren, seated at the West Hollywood Starbucks. They've hired 16 writers for the project, who are being paid in equity and have all signed Silicon Valley-style agreements not to disclose details about the project. Even though they're getting offers from several entertainment websites, Dahlgren and Music aren't willing to go to work for the New New Man. "There are a lot of people offering us deals along the old studio model," says...
Today more than a dozen U.S. companies run some 250 for-profit public schools, with an enrollment of 120,000 students--there were no such classrooms a decade ago--and venture capitalists from Wall Street to Silicon Valley are eagerly pumping funds into educational start-ups. "We originally set out to raise $100 million," says financier Jeffrey Leeds, founder of one such fund. "But the demand [to invest] was so great that we raised our target to $250 million, and we intend to cap it at $300 million...