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Credit CEO Chris Galvin, the founder's grandson, who re-engineered the company. Motorola still has some vulnerability. The firm counts on tech-heavy businesses that may tank if spending by telecom firms softens. But Galvin has convinced Wall Street that he can keep revenues growing. Motorola stock hit a new high of $86 last week, and investors snapped up $800 million worth of bonds for Iridium, an ambitious Motorola-backed satellite project. Now that's mobile electronics. Grandpa would surely approve...
According to family and friends, Harvard actually considered many colleges' offers--including those from Georgia Tech and Duke--before choosing the university in Cambridge, Mass. that shares his name...
...these guys in it to improve the world or make money? "It's one of those situations where they coincide," Bellenson says. Sasson won't get sucked into highfalutin moral speculation, commenting only on the excitement of the intranet. America's high-tech culture has indeed combined doing well and doing good--getting rich and making the world a better place--with more success, probably, than any similar-size group of people in the history of the world. And for biotech, especially, the miracles are just beginning. If the citizens of this Other Beltway wish to believe they're doing...
...largely symbolic. Even if the government figures out a constitutional way to impose limited censorship online, these rules can apply only within the U.S.--and the Internet is international. If parents want to control what their children see, they'll probably have to resort to an old-fashioned, low-tech solution: they'll have to supervise their kids' time online...
Flora's ability to attract a foreign high-tech company shows that many Americans have come to embrace rather than fear new technology. The Internet seems to have even more impact on information flow in small towns than it does in large cities. I spent the night in Hutchinson, Kans., at the home of John Scott, who was a missionary in what used to be Zaire and now runs a volunteer housing program. After dinner, I asked him what the latest news was in the Congo, and he turned on his computer to check out the Websites of people...