BUSINESS
By Mark Schwanhausser and Elise Ackerman and Mark Schwanhausser and Elise Ackerman,San Jose Mercury News | April 12, 2007
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Less than three years after it went public, Google is confronting one of the more confounding consequences of its phenomenal success: a potential brain drain if its earliest - and richest - employees quit after earning the right to cash in the last of the stock options that made them millionaires. Hundreds of the 2,300 Googlers hired before the Internet juggernaut's initial public offering in August 2004 are hitting their fourth anniversary. When they do, they'll be free to cash in the final portions of their pre-IPO stock options, collectively worth an estimated $2.6 billion before taxes.
NEWS
By Pete Pichaske, For The Baltimore Sun | March 13, 2014
Here's a no-brainer for you: Your memory doesn't have to get worse with age. In fact, you can actually grow the short-term memory portion of your brain -- and possibly even stave off the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Or so says Dr. Majid Fotuhi, a Harvard- and Johns Hopkins-trained neurologist who has operated a brain center in Lutherville for the past two and a half years, and who this winter opened an even larger brain center in Columbia, a 6,000-square-foot facility on Charter Drive, behind Howard County General Hospital.
NEWS
By MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE | February 6, 2005
AMES, Iowa - The ads flopped. The cocktail parties the governor threw came and went. All the mailings touting the virtues of living a long way from the bright lights of big cities never helped, either. Iowa, ever the humble suitor, is still struggling to persuade well-educated young adults to stay put, or move back. But now the state may get brash - by offering them cash. Iowa's legislature has begun debating an extraordinary bill to exempt anyone under 30 from paying state income tax. No other state with the same affliction - an exodus of residents commonly called "brain drain" - has taken such a step.
NEWS
By Elizabeth Heubeck | August 27, 2013
The office of Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot recently released a report suggesting that Maryland students start school after Labor Day so that families can take one last summer-fling vacation, thereby giving the state a nearly $75 million economic boost. I haven't crunched any numbers on the topic but, as a parent with school-age children, I believe the report's glowing financial projections fail to take into account several factors that work against this predicted surge in tourism-related dollars.
NEWS
November 12, 2006
WORLD With oil money, new leverage The increase in oil prices is the common denominator in some of Washington's most implacable foreign-policy challenges. From the U.S. government's perspective, oil money in the hands of unfriendly nations empowers regimes to defy American policy on everything from nuclear nonproliferation to human rights. pg 16a Hunger adds to AIDS scourge Starvation and malnutrition are fast becoming the twin perils of the AIDS fight, and doctors say millions of infected people in the developing world are rapidly approaching a tipping point where food will replace drugs as the biggest need.
NEWS
By Doyle McManus and Doyle McManus,Los Angeles Times | January 24, 1992
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is preparing an nTC initiative to ensure full employment for an estimated 2,000 nuclear scientists in the former Soviet Union, including U.S.-funded jobs overseeing the destruction of Soviet atomic weapons and a multinational effort to provide jobs in civilian research institutes, officials said yesterday.The plan, which is under discussion in a high-level interagency group, is intended to head off attempts to hire the scientists by Libya, Iran or other countries that may be seeking to develop nuclear weapons, the officials said.