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...then I got a sneak peek at the new color SoftBook from Thomson Multimedia, due to hit store shelves in late September, and my doubts began to fade like an aging first edition. The original SoftBook was a fairly hefty creature, a coffee-table tome with a $600 price tag. This baby has shed one-third of its weight (down to a svelte 2 lbs.) and 15% of its size. And at about half the price of the original, it's a lot easier on your wallet...
Last year some $52 billion in venture capital was funneled into start-ups, almost three times 1998's total, according to Venture Economics, a division of Thomson Financial Securities Data. That doesn't include an estimated $30 billion more in seed capital plunked down by "angels," wealthy individual investors who help get start-ups going before they hit up the VCs. Through the first three months of this year, that feverish pace continued, with VCs doling out $23 billion, mostly to dotcom prospects...
...design the course with two different audiences in mind--for students in a Harvard classroom and users on the net--the question is raised which one you are focusing on," Thomson says...
Stem cells derived from embryos, on the other hand, can become just about anything--from teeth to muscle to neurons. In fact, they're so strongly primed to differentiate that scientists have a tough time keeping them in their original state. James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin was the first to pull off the feat in 1998. He now has an entire tissue bank of stem cells that he hopes one day to turn into specialized tissue almost at will--eliminating the need for fresh embryos...
...department that's already been hard hit is the American section of the government department, where in 1998, Thomson Professor of Government Morris P. Fiorina packed his bags for a tenured position at Stanford. Theda Skocpol, another big name in that department, told The Crimson last year that she has talked to Stanford officials about heading West...