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Urban Planners Made La Défense an Architectural Statement, But a Terrible Place to Live 27 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
"La Défense can feel like a ghost town after 5 p.m. and on weekends, once the district's office workers have left." Source of caption and photo: online version of the NYT article quoted and cited belo...
Google Started in Garage 26 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
(p. 34) On September 4, 1998, Page and Brin filed for incorporation and finally moved off campus. Sergey's girlfriend at the time was friendly with a manager at Intel named Susan Wojcicki, who had jus...
Dubai Has Strong Ruling Clan, But Weak Institutions 25 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
Source of book image: http://www.christopherdavidson.net/sitebuilder/images/DVOS_cover-210x300.jpg (p. 4) For Mr. Davidson, Dubai's greatest weakness lies in its autocratic governing system. Politics...
A Path to Bringing Back the Extinct Woolly Mammoth 24 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
(p. D3) For the first time in 43,000 years, a woolly mammoth has breathed again on earth. Well, not the mammoth itself but its hemoglobin, the stuff in red blood cells that takes on oxygen in the lun...
"Better Coffee Rockefeller's Money Can't Buy" 23 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
"Page Morton Black, a cabaret singer, and William Black, the founder of the Chock Full o'Nuts company, in the early 1960s." Source of caption and photo: online version of the NYT article quoted and ci...
"We Just Begged and Borrowed" for Equipment 22 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
(p. 32) Google was handling as many as 10,000 queries a day. At times it was consuming half of Stanford's Internet capacity. Its appetite for equipment and bandwidth was voracious. "We just begged and...
FDR and LaGuardia Legacy for NYC: Feds Fund Foolish Projects? 21 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
Source of book image: http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-XZ916_bkrvam_DV_20130627152210.jpg (p. 16) Fiorello La Guardia is regularly ranked not only as the greatest mayor of New York City, ...
In Greece, Votes Are Traded for Government Jobs 20 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
(p. A4) Some members of Parliament have lobbied for fishing licenses for the owners of pleasure boats in the Aegean islands. Others have asked for government jobs for award-winning athletes or members...
George Mitchell, Father of Fracking, Took 20 Years to Make It Work 19 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
"George P. Mitchell with a statue of himself at The Woodlands in 2007." Source of caption and photo: online version of the WSJ obituary quoted and cited below. (p. B3) George P. Mitchell turned hydra...
Excite Rejected Google Because It Was too Good 18 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
(p. 28) Maybe the closest Page and Brin came to a deal was with Excite, a search-based company that had begun-- just like Yahoo-- with a bunch of sharp Stanford kids whose company was called Architext...
