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Walls didn't belong to anyplace growing up. Her father was an itinerant electrician who dreamed of being an inventor; her mother was an occasional schoolteacher who dreamed of being an artist. Both were failures at everything. But they chose to spin their inability to stick to anything as a glorious crusade against bourgeois conformity, and they dragged their kids along for the ride. In her extraordinary book The Glass Castle, Walls describes a childhood spent careering across the country, from California to West Virginia, in a succession of ever more rattletrap cars, in pursuit of increasingly implausible get-rich...
...just five months, what began as a follow-up project to Zuckerberg’s failed HotOrNot.com spin-off, Facemash.com, became an internet phenomenon in the same boat as multimillion dollar companies like Friendster and Tribe. And a sophomore computer science concentrator in Kirkland House, his detail-oriented roommate, and a mutual friend with an eye for business became Silicon Valley executives—de facto CEO, project manager, and CFO, respectively...
Smith said he expects the college-aged students to offer an “interesting spin on Iraq...
PetroChina officials have assured investors that the firm does not deal directly with Sudan. But the firm is a spin-off of the China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), which has invested more than $1 billion in a joint venture with the government of Sudan to boost that country’s oil production. CNPC still controls 90 percent of PetroChina, and a restructuring plan unveiled late last year would move all of CNPC’s overseas assets—including its Sudan stake—directly into PetroChina’s hands...
...stake through that squishy culture's heart. HP expanded into computers in the 1970s, but by the 1990s, its sundial pace had run up against Internet time. The company needed to reposition itself in a new, networked environment. Fiorina grew up within AT&T and its equipment-making spin-off Lucent Technologies, so she was well versed in the dangers of cultural inertia. At Lucent, she had emphasized speed and aggressive sales targets. "Have I taken risks through my whole life? Yes," she told TIME in a 2002 interview. "The risk that is not worth taking...