MIT's Guru of Low-Tech Engineering Fixes the World on $2 a Day
From impoverished Peruvian villages to MIT's D-Lab, professor Amy Smith and her spirited team of engineers are on a mission: Fight global poverty and improve living standards for developing countries-one low-cost, accessible invention at a time. August 2008, Compone, Peru

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Lloyd C. Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, received bonus and stock awards worth about $68.5 million last year, while Goldman’s co-presidents got just slightly less.

And McCain thinks guys with bonuses like these (we're not even talking about salaries) should get tax cuts.

Cuomo Asks for Pay Data From Banks

From the New England Wildflower Society:
Did you know that Massachusetts environmental programs and agencies are among the hardest hit by the recent cuts in the state's budget ( Read more... )

I got my absentee ballot ( Read more... )

If you use linkedin, or other social networking sites, such as facebook or myspace you might find this article in the New York Times of interest: At Social Site, Only the Businesslike Need Apply. It focuses on the valuation of such sites, and primarily why Linkedin managed to raise such a significant private investment -- that'd be $580 million ( Read more... )