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01 Mar 2012
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The Accidental Innovator

why have teachers teaching individually in separate classrooms, why not teach together in large collaborative spaces? If $10K or $15K a year is about what school districts spend per student, with the Khan Academy method, can you parlay... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade

to PCs and hence to the Net." Thus, Azuela expects the bulk of Internet growth will occur in the B2B sector and wireless applications. Auction house DeRemate.com, currently a leader in the region's consumer Internet sector, has a growth rate of 10 to 20 percent View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2008
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Team MBA

time — you could easily spend an hour or more on each one. So I trained myself to hit the important points with only ten minutes per case. In the future, when we are in more senior positions, we might have fifty agenda items to discuss in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2013
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Your Own Medicine

level of creatine kinase—an enzyme indicative of muscle damage—in a normal person's blood is around 50 units per liter, maybe as high as 100 after a workout. Charley's was 20,000. It suggested muscular dystrophy. Related Links Curing... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do

French government subsidies. Since 90 percent of a conventional resort’s electricity bill would go to air conditioning, Bailey calculates the SWAC system saves about $500,000 per year; thus his investment will be returned in about 7.4... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Health, Social Assistance; Accommodation; Hospitality; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air

a baseline cost was right around $400 per ton. For reference, we’re trying to get below $100, because that’s the price where we think we can have real impact. We would’ve had to pull some significant levers to get it to that range, and... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine

quickly on the initial steps of the COVID-19 vaccine. The type of research he envisions would require government investment, he says, but not much. “You’re talking $10, $20 million dollars per vaccine preclinical,” he points out. “It’s... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive

lose their lives in their quest to reach the world’s pinnacle. Inside the compact submersible, Vescovo was as comfortable as anyone on a long-haul flight in coach. But he knew that just 90 millimeters of titanium protected him from 12,000 pounds View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

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