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...clout in the party to assure her a top post in his government. Nicole El Karoui Math Professor Few postgraduate degrees have the cachet of one earned under her aegis at the Ecole Polytechnique or the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Paris VI). Banks snap up her students, who have mastered the probability equations that hedge funds need to model portfolios. Anne Lauvergeon CEO, Areva Group A former Mitterrand acolyte, she negotiated the 2001 merger of state-owned firms to create the world's biggest builder of nuclear power plants. Reappointed this summer for five more years, she vows...
...elevator back up to the office. I had to wait and when I finally got in an elevator, there was this kid, maybe 19 or 20, with his backpack blocking the door. We must have waited about 20 seconds for this guy. I remember I was about to snap at him to move out of the way so that the doors could close, and just then the second plane hit. The elevator shook unbelievably. I thought we were going to into a free fall, but we didn't. Everybody ran out. There was so much dust. We merged back into...
...Gadget reviewers like me may love a challenge, but we like it even better when products work as billed. I tested an iControl system that included a wireless camera, which I easily positioned and programmed to snap pictures of anyone walking through my front door. I coupled a motion sensor with a lamp controller, so that the light went on whenever someone walked by. The coolest part was that I could also command the lights and camera directly from the Web page. I did not test the thermostat, but like the other devices, it can be controlled remotely...
...albums ? Interviews for Our Time and The Sick Humor of Lenny Bruce ? and Lenny, with a hipster snap of his fingers, quickly became my first stand-up crush. I was hooked by the humor, its breadth and pungency, even if I didn't always pick up on the references. Sure, I knew that Orval Faubus was Arkansas' segregationist governor, and I laughed when Lenny had him ignorantly approving of his daughter's engagement to Harry Belafonte ("Nice Italian boy, eh?"), but the allusions to 30s movies and the talent agency MCA sailed over my head. That didn't matter...
GENERAL INTEREST Snap This new Google-competitor records and analyzes past searches to help determine relevancy, favoring sites where surfers visited most frequently and lingered the longest. Search results are displayed on the left side of the page, while the other side provides a visual preview (which you can choose to view in small, medium or large). Ask.com offers previews too - courtesy of a little binoculars icon placed next to certain links - and boasts a new Blogs & Feeds search tool...