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Though they couldn't be more different from former dotcom darlings like? Pets.com, clean-tech start-ups were hit hard by the vaporization of venture capital in the wake of the tech and Internet bust of 2000. Funding for green venture capital plunged over the next three years. But it wasn't just flashbacks to that meltdown that initially kept venture capitalists cool on clean tech. Starting up an Internet company required relatively low levels of capital - at least before you started buying your employees massage chairs - and dangled the possibility of a quick and lucrative payoff. Cracking the energy...
Herbie Hancock Nothing against Hancock, a fine gentleman and terrific musician, but even he had to wake up this morning and think Ashton Kutcher had finally delivered on Jazz Punk'd. This was one of the five best albums of the year? Really? If Hancock gets to perform at the ceremony, he better at least dust off the robots from "Rock It." He owes us that...
...UC’s involvement in the latter issue had been questioned by the Willey campaign, especially in the wake of a recent Crimson article in which former University President Derek C. Bok was quoted as saying that administrative approval had influenced the decision more than student input...
...civic courage and political engagement,” as our ornery alumni suggest. Though they’ve asked Faust to charter a task force with a name so long and grammatically complex that it cannot possibly be anything but a good idea, no amount of administrative prodding will wake us up to the fact that, as they claim, “the US is engaged in an occupation abroad...while at the same time trampling on US citizens’ own constitutional rights.” At the moment, we don’t care. Not about this country...
...official Pentagon line in the wake of the National Intelligence Estimate conclusion that Iran presents no imminent nuclear missile danger is that Iran's missiles are a danger, regardless of what they carry in their warheads. "Nothing has changed at all," Rick Lehner, the Pentagon's chief missile-defense spokesman, said Wednesday. "There has been no impact to our plans for a European deployment, because our missile-defense program is not geared to any kind of specific defense against a specific weapon." It all gets back to "delivery systems," as military geeks call missiles. "It's a defense against ballistic...