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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mind that investigating the needsof the student population and what is important tothem will inevitably lead to a new type ofactivism, that is, an activism with substantivestudent support and a real social vision," shesays...
When it comes to diversification, many mutual-fund investors fool themselves. Funds with very different names and objectives often hold the same stocks. Now, thanks to a new software program called Overlap ($150 a year; 800-683-7527), fund fanatics can ferret out duplication. Type in any two funds, and the program shows what percentage of stocks they hold in common and their overlap in various sectors like technology...
Bechtel was, and remained throughout his nearly 70-year career, a visionary whose imagination was fired by grandiose projects--the more seemingly impossible the better. His motto, endlessly repeated, was "We'll build anything for anybody, no matter what the location, type or size." He and his company built pipelines and power plants in the forbidding reaches of the Canadian Rockies, across the Arabian desert and through South American jungles, as well as in daunting places like downtown Boston, where the Central Artery project unfolds today. His portfolio even includes an entire city (Jubail, Saudi Arabia). Bechtel built...
...creation of the Doughboy, Burnett employed a cuddly endomorph to symbolize the friendly bounce of Pillsbury home-baking products. Aiming at male audiences in the '50s, a time when filter cigarettes were viewed as effeminate, Burnett introduced a tough and silent tattooed cowboy on horseback, "the most masculine type of man," he explained, to transform the image of Marlboro cigarettes--for better or worse, one of the most enduring advertising icons ever devised...
...photo shows Bill as a rapt young teenager, watching his friend Paul Allen type at a computer terminal. Allen became a co-founder of Microsoft. The child Gates has neat hair and an eager, pleasant smile; every last detail says "pat me on the head." He entered Harvard but dropped out to found Microsoft in 1975. Microsoft's first product was a version of the programming language BASIC for the Altair 8800, arguably the world's first personal computer. BASIC, invented by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz in 1964, was someone else's idea. So was the Altair. Gates merely...