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    Nov 28, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. At 'fiscal cliff,' a hearty few call for more spending

    <div style="padding: 18px 0px 8px 8px; float: right;"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/search/dispatcher.front?Query=james+rainey&target=adv_article"><img src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-500f4a84/turbine/la-jim-rainey-inline-teaser.gif/950" /></a></div>The dominant voices in Washington have been possessed in recent days with finding the right combination of tax increases and spending cuts to avoid year-end budget outcomes allegedly so hazardous they are compared with a &ldquo;cliff.&rdquo;
    The dominant voices in Washington have been possessed in recent days with finding the right combination of tax increases and spending cuts to avoid year-end budget outcomes allegedly so hazardous they are compared with a “cliff.” If most...

    Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Barack Obama

    2. Mar 25, 2012 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  2. Book review: 'The Idea Factory' by Jon Gertner

    For generations of industry research executives, AT&amp;T's Bell Telephone Laboratories served as an inspiration: a warren of youthful scientists and engineers assigned to go where their intellects took them, not especially concerned about serving the corporate bottom line, picking up cartloads of Nobel Prizes along the way. Bell Labs was the model for, among others, Xerox Corp.'s legendary Palo Alto Research Center, or PARC, which spun out the personal computer, Windows-style displays, Ethernet and many other advances that delivered their bounty more to society at large than to the parent company.
    For generations of industry research executives, AT&T's Bell Telephone Laboratories served as an inspiration: a warren of youthful scientists and engineers assigned to go where their intellects took them, not especially concerned about serving the...

    Tags: Invention and Innovation, Unix, Xerox Corporation, Awards and Prizes, The Pentagon

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