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...rock has a got a guitar and some great beats. All the types of music are really influencing each other now, hip-hop and pop, rap and rock. It's all a lot closer to the people. Pop is sounding really progressive now, intergrating new beats and tech. Lots of kids can own Backstreet Boys and a Limp Bizkit CD, and defintiely Blink because it's right in between. It's a lot different from when I was in high school in '91, when if you were into Soundgarden and Seattle grunge, you wouldn't be caught dead listening...
Student start-up companies are contributing to a technological boom in Cambridge. City officials and professors say the area is increasingly winning a reputation as a center for high-tech industry. And Harvard and MIT, the universities at either end of town, are the principal attraction...
Even with high-tech expansion at Harvard and MIT, Cambridge officials maintain that the city does not make a conscious effort to attract new technology...
...despite the potential hardship, the lure of the high-tech world is easy to understand: no homework, potentially hefty paychecks and the chance to set your own rules free from proctors and teaching fellows...
...uncertainty is a major factor. The majority of new high-tech companies haven't ever seen a profit. If Amazon.com hasn't done it, imagine the risk in a dorm-room venture. By contrast, an investment bank or a consulting firm can offer a steady cash flow to virtually any Harvard graduate...