Word: techs
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David and Jerry. Larry and Sergey. It's like a Jeopardy! category: Guys Who Created Fortune 500 Tech Companies While at Stanford University...
...thing is that whenever a head of state begins a visit to Israel, he doesn't go to a university or to the high-tech sector or the beautiful cultural places we have in Israel; first you should get molded into the Israeli reality at [the Holocaust memorial] Yad Vashem. And I do not think that Yad Vashem should be the showcase or the gateway through which everybody should first encounter Israel. Part of the program, yes; but the starting point? This is not the way to baptize people into an encounter with Judaism...
...West Side. In case you're planning to attend a convention next year at New York City's Javitz Center on the West Side, the Wyndham has just opened two Garden Hotels nearby, with high-tech "Smart Chairs" designed by Michael Graves in the lobby (the chairs have swiveling tables and built-in electrical outlets and Internet ports), anti-allergy guest rooms and organic breakfasts. At the Wyndham Garden Midtown Convention Center (341 West 36th Street), rates start at $179 per night; at the Wyndham Garden Chelsea (37 West 24th Street), rates start...
...have noticed a surge in new users looking for hand-me-downs and raw materials being given away on the nonprofit site, which has more than 6 million members around the globe. "People used to ask others in the network for luxury items," such as laptops and other high-tech gadgets, says Michelle Martinez, a Freecycle volunteer who oversees the local Freecycle chapter in Tucson, Ariz. But those requests have been replaced by ones for such basics as beds or mattresses. "I think there's a lot going on behind the scenes, as family members start moving in together...
Alternative (or "complementary") currencies range from quaint to robust, simple to high tech. There are Greens from the Lettuce Patch Bank at the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in rural northeastern Missouri. In western Massachusetts one finds fine-artist-designed BerkShares, which are convertible to U.S. dollars. More than $2 million in BerkShares have been issued through the 12 branches of five local banks, according to Susan Witt, executive director of the E.F. Schumacher Society, the nonprofit behind the currency. And in South Africa, proprietary software keeps track of Community Exchange System (CES) Talents; one ambitious plan is to make Khayelitsha...