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InnovaLight CEO Burke, whose roots are in sales, marketing and physics, was a fast riser at AT&T and its Lucent spin-off. In 2000 he joined an optics firm called OMM Inc. that tanked with the telecom sector in 2003. Stints with a venture-capital firm and optical- component maker Bookham Inc. followed. Burke's former boss Phil Chapman, now CFO with Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. in San Diego, calls him "fearless." Fearlessness will serve Burke well now. "You don't want to be partnering with a customer who expects this to be simple," says another of Burke's former...
...asks now. “Come on! I’m old, but I’m not that old! Maybe it had no engine or something?”The segment ends with a freeze-frame of Donato, floppy-haired head in hands, but a 75-cent spin on the wheel gets him into The Showcase Showdown, where he bids on a harp, a satellite dish, and a water-ski boat. To demonstrate the fortitude of the harp—as well as to express its coolness—a model attempts to slice bread by forcing it through...
...just finished shooting a film in which you play Ashton Kutcher to Michelle Pfeiffer's Demi Moore. How'd it go? Yeah, that was really, really rough. It's by Amy Heckerling, who did Clueless. It's a romantic comedy, older-woman-younger-guy thing. Amy puts an unconventional spin on a conventional movie premise...
...planet's spin is partly what makes solar-generated electricity as inefficient as it is expensive. Think of those unsightly, bulky panels that hippies, Hollywood stars and even the President have affixed to their dwellings. They can soak up peak light only at noon, when the sun is highest in the sky. Why not design a system that captures that much sunlight all day long...
There's always Plan B, a daunting cosmic hurdle. Says Gross: "I don't know if we can get everyone to run in the direction of the Earth's spin to stop it from turning...