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...potential market which will likely not be able to capitalize on the information in the work because of minimal acquisition budgets. “There would be a case where some virtualization strategy would be well-advised, and maybe [“Literary History”] could be sold for rights that would keep the Harvard Press from going under and would benefit hundreds of thousands,” he explains...
...Empire’s massacre of Armenians and Kurds earned him a much-debated prosecution under Turkish law for “explicitly insulting the Republic,” and a year later he took home the Nobel Prize in Literature amidst accusations by his countrymen that he had sold out to the West. But Pamuk is no activist. In his latest, civil war and sectarian violence make an appearance only as background—instead it’s the relationship between modern love and loss, problematic in its own right, that becomes the stuff of his dreamlike meditations...
...initiative.) "Inventing a better gadget isn't enough anymore. We're trying to reshape the way people live," says SolarCity CEO Lyndon Rive, a South African who went to California for the world underwater-hockey championships, got caught up in the Internet boom and never left. He built and sold an IT-support company; now he's reshaping its software to monitor solar panels...
...First, the pop idol. Stephen Gately was a star in the Irish band Boyzone, which has sold about 30 million records since forming in 1993. Gately, 33, died on Oct. 10 of an acute pulmonary edema while vacationing on the Mediterranean island of Majorca with his civil partner Andrew Cowles. Amid gushing eulogies for Gately, Jan Moir, a columnist with conservative British newspaper the Daily Mail, wrote a piece that questioned whether the singer's death was, as the coroner had ruled, due to natural causes. Moir speculated that Gately's gay lifestyle may have played a part. "Healthy...
...says Do Van Dong, who lives not far from the Vu Gia river in Quang Nam. Thousands of residents converged on the logjam at the Quang Hue bridge, he says. Despite the churning currents, people waded in to salvage the wood. Groups of men carried trees into town and sold them that same day. "Some even brought power saws to the site and cut the logs into timber like a carpenter's shop, selling it on the spot," says Dong. "There were so many people that the police and forest rangers couldn't stop them...