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FEATURE-From the ashes of Webvan, Amazon builds a grocery business
ReutersBy Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO, June 16 (Reuters) - The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three...Tags: Travel, Sales, Gap Inc., E-Commerce Industry, Employees
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From the ashes of Webvan, Amazon builds a grocery business
ReutersSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three years before shutting its...Tags: Travel, Sales, Gap Inc., E-Commerce Industry, Employees
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University presses: a view from the academy
The front table in Hyde Park's Seminary Co-op Bookstore has been a must stop for book browsers for book lovers since the early 1970s. It is always brimming with more than 100 newly published scholarly works vying for readers' attention. Most of the titles...
Tags: Book, Arts and Culture, Kent State University, Reed Elsevier, Sales
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Oprah donates $100K to Weston brothers' fundraiser
After losing both his hands and feet to a bacterial infection, 13-year-old Michael Stolzenberg knows there's a reason why he survived. And this week that reason was made clear – by Oprah Winfrey. The talk show host and media mogul called Michael...
Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Sports, Boston Marathon, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Transit cop wounded in hunt for Boston bombers leaves hospital
The transit police officer severely wounded during the hunt for the men who planted bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon was discharged from the hospital on Friday, almost two months after the attack that stunned the nation. Richard Donohue,...
Tags: Sports, Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Shootings
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Future space explorers tour JPL
Thirty-two students in aerospace, engineering and science programs in 11 different countries descended on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory last week as part of a Caltech competition to design a mission to one of Mars' two moons, Phobos or Deimos. "Watching...
Tags: Aerospace Manufacturing, Technology, Neil Armstrong, NASA, Travel
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Spying On Us, But Missing The Bombers?
The Hartford CourantMost Americans understand that in a hostile world, governments need to engage in some snooping to monitor and thwart our enemies. We know they need to crack codes and keep secrets. In exchange for handing the government that extraordinary power, we expect...Tags: Sports, Fox News Channel (tv network), Al-Qaeda, Boston Marathon, Richard Donohue, Jr.
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New State Medical Examiner Sworn In
The Hartford Courant— Dr. James Gill, the state's new chief medical examiner, was sworn in Friday by his father, Superior Court Judge Charles D. Gill. Gill, 47, is expected to begin working in Connecticut near the end of July. He is now a deputy chief medical examiner...Tags: New York City, Colleges and Universities, University of Connecticut, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), University of New Haven
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Imperial High's 107th senior class closes out graduation season
Staff WriterIMPERIAL — The senior class of Imperial High School closed out the Valley’s graduation season after nearly 200 seniors participated in the school’s 107th commencement ceremony at Shimamoto-Simpson Stadium here Friday night. Like high...Tags: Graduation, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, Robert J. Lopez
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Report: Automakers to use scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass in the very near future
Autoblog.comFiled under: Safety, Technology Today's automotive windshields are commonly made with two layers of tempered glass sandwiching a sheet of optically clear polyvinyl butyral (PVB), a plastic layer that holds everything in place even when the glass is... -
Mars or bust, Buzz Aldrin says
Dancer, rapper, and, oh yeah, Man on the Moon Buzz Aldrin is talking, but are the right people listening? One of the original moonwalkers (“Michael Jackson always did it backwards!” Aldrin complained) challenged the United States to pick...Tags: Neil Armstrong, NASA, West Point, Richard Nixon, Science and Technology
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Digest: Towson adds Jim McCarthy as men's basketball assistant
Colleges Towson adds Jim McCarthy as men's basketball assistant Former Northeastern men's basketball assistant coach Jim McCarthy will join the Towson coaching staff, Tigers head coach Pat Skerry announced Wednesday. McCarthy, who helped guide the...Tags: Sports, Washington Huskies, Philadelphia Union, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Loyola University Maryland
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