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...years, the school loses autonomy to the state and to private contractors. At every stage, the stigma associated with the loss of status and autonomy encourages those who can to leave the failing school, while those who don’t have the resources or the parental support to switch schools are left in a privatized trap that likely does even worse on Bush’s tests than it did in the first place. And to make matters worse, the president has underfunded his own initiative, assuring that the students who are left behind in the failing school don?...
...Given the day-to-day changes that take place in the entertainment world it is crucial that the HCC have the autonomy to switch around the bid order, move the date, or change the amount they are bidding on,” he wrote in an e-mail...
Before Christophe Echeverri decided to spin his postdoctoral project into a biotech company called Cenix BioScience in 1999, he hesitated, fearing the switch from lab coat to business suit was a "move over to the dark side." Echeverri had been invited to turn the research he was doing at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg into a commercial venture under the well-endowed wing of the Max Planck Institute, Germany's elite scientific research body. Echeverri didn't hesitate long, seeing the opportunity as a once-in-a-lifetime chance to prove that his theories actually worked. So when...
...creation of Cenix was not only a big switch for Canadian-born Echeverri, who loved the world of pure science. It also marks a shift for the venerable Max Planck Institute, which in Dresden is charting a new course to make Germany a major player in biotech research and development. Cenix is steaming in the right direction. "We're part of the wave of development that happened when the government and investment community made the push into biotech," says Echeverri, 35, his dark eyes darting to his cell phone to check text messages. "This year we're going to make...
SHIRO TSUDA Mobile Master It is rare for an executive in Japan to switch companies. But Tsuda's defection from NTT DoCoMo--the company he was rumored to be in line to run until he got passed over for the top spot in May--is particularly dramatic. In December, Tsuda, 58, takes over the Japanese subsidiary of Vodafone, the world's largest cell-phone carrier. But in Japan the British company's market share is third--and dwindling. Tsuda's challenge: to step up the shift to third-generation phone service and boost the bottom line. --With reporting...