Word: techs
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...Resource operates as a full-service community bank, and anyone is welcome to walk through its recycled-glass doors. But the deposits are used to finance loans for environmentally conscious projects, including alternative energy, clean tech, organic farming and sustainable home and office construction. A special lending program enables green builders to get lower interest rates, while home owners can finance solar-power installations for about the same cost as their monthly electricity bill...
...injury, Nathan stepped in at libero.“Jeff Nathan was outstanding,” co-captain Dave Fitz said. “He was digging everything and his passes were nails.”As the Crimson approached its last regular season game against Steven Tech on April 7, the three seniors prepared to leave the team to the underclassmen.“I don’t want to leave, but I’m happy—we’re ready to pass the torch.” Fitz said, “I love...
...creates as a building disemboweled, with its intestines and even its skeleton on display. Sitting on the broad, cobblestoned (and mime-infested) plaza in front of it, it's not hard to imagine that the underground workings of the city itself have erupted upward. The Pompidou may be high tech, its exoskeleton may be a rationalist's grid, but it strikes a note of ferocious dislocations and forbidden disclosures that the Surrealists would have understood...
...Notwithstanding that he's Lord Rogers - the life peerage came in 1996 - Rogers is also a confirmed political progressive. At his firm the directors make no more than six times the lowest-paid architects. Like Norman Foster, whom he's often paired with as a pioneer of Brit high tech, he's committed to environmentally sustainable design. And during the Tony Blair years in the U.K., he's made himself into an architectural and city planning power at home, pushing for real architecture over kitsch revivalism and for high-density city living over suburban sprawl. (And also...
Like Gates, Allen now devotes much of his time to giving away lots of money. He still has a fortune north of $15 billion and has remained active in the tech world, investing in a series of start-ups, from AOL to early wireless networks. He scored big with such outfits as DreamWorks and Ticketmaster, while some of his other investments have struggled, like Egghead Software and Purple Moon, a failed CD-ROM venture...