Word: walden
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...invests in a broad group of third-party venture capital firms. These firms are located across the country, from Highland Capital Partners headquartered in Boston, to Crosspoint Venture Partners, of northern California, to Walden International Investment Group of San Francisco. These companies invest in firms focusing on a broad range of start-up companies, from the internet to communications to health care...
Near the beginning of Walden, Thoreau writes that "it would be some advantage to live in a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life and what methods have been taken to obtain them." The irony, of course, is that now we would say even the most "civilized" mid-nineteenth-century American lived a life far more primitive than any imaginable today. No Coca-Cola (nor plastic bottle in which to hold it); no Gore-Tex jacket (nor zipper with which close it); no Chevy...
...quiet Boston suburb of Walden, Mass., once the site of Thoreau's introspection about the power of nature and the essence of humanity, Natalie M. Heffellinger was raised...
Heffellinger's environment of choice is no Walden, with tourists, shoppers and students hustling busily through her residence...
...keeping with her ideas of spirituality, she occasionally visits Walden to enjoy the tranquility of the place where Thoreau found enlightenment...