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...engineering schools to work for them. Google spent $200,000 to be the lead sponsor of the four-day-long reunion of 3,500 alumni. Microsoft's research center in Hyderabad came calling. The CEO of GE, Jeff Immelt, already employs 1,500 graduates and says he needs more. Stanford? MIT? Harvard? Nope. This was a gathering of graduates of the Indian Institutes of Technology...
...number of American applicants to the Nieman Fellowship Program dropped to 91 in 2007, down from 100 last year, according to Nieman foundation curator Robert H. Giles. The decrease in applicants is part of a greater trend observed elsewhere, as Stanford also saw its Knight Fellowship Program applicant pool decrease from 101 to 83 in the last year...
...Still, even if estrogen is linked to less plaque in the arteries, that doesn't mean it outweighs other possible risks of hormone therapy. "People want a simple answer to whether estrogen is bad or good," says Marcia Stefanick, another author of the paper, from Stanford University. "but it's not that simple. We need to ask instead, 'Is it bad or good for what...
...Semel stepped down as CEO this week in favor of co-founder Jerry Yang, a Stanford wonder kid just like those Google guys who burst Yahoo's bubble. Yang is likely to take a back-to-basics approach to Yahoo, focusing on streamlining the company's many ventures to squeeze more revenue out of the company's new Panama advertising system, a revamped ad platform created to compete more aggressively against Google. "Yang's strengths are sentimental, technical, and basic," says Jordan Rohan, technology analyst with RBC Capital Markets...
...Bariatric surgery isn't a cure-all. There are still significant diet and lifestyle changes that need to be enforced. For example, a new study from Stanford University shows that patients who have gastric bypass are more susceptible to the effects of alcohol. Inspired by an episode of Oprah Winfrey in which most individuals who had undergone gastric bypass said they got drunk faster on less alcohol, the researchers decided to test this theory. The study found that for people who had the surgery, drinking 5 ounces of wine would give them an average blood alcohol level of 0.08, while...