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Bill Perkins, an energy trader by profession, accomplished some unusual goals last year. His Houston firm, Small Ventures U.S.A., invests in commodity markets for a hedge fund; the firm’s transactional volume is in the billions. The niche he knows best is natural gas, a fossil fuel used to heat homes and to generate much of the nation’s electricity.
Remarks of President Barack Obama’s Address to Joint Session of Congress Madame Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and the First Lady of the United States: I’ve come here...
President Barack Obama delivered his first speech to a joint session of Congress. While it was not technically be a State of the Union address, because he is still so new to office, it had many of the same characteristics.
Reginald Smith, molecular biologist at General Electric, is the lead scientist on a cell technology program at the company that explores new techniques and technology to efficiently produce stem cells. He has several patents under his belt, with one pending that covers instrumentation to be used by the pharmaceutical and biotech industries for real-time quality control as well as faster production of protein-based drugs.
Ajamu Wesley’s calling was made clear early in life, when at the age of eight he was introduced to computer programming by his mother. Her 30-year tenure at IBM gave Wesley unparalleled insight into the corporate world and advanced technology. Later, armed with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Cornell University, the 35-year-old plays an integral role in building and developing social software products in IBM’s Lotus software division. These products provide business professionals with seamless integration between enterrpsie security and Web. 2.0 networking technologies. Wesley helped develop Lotus Connections (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/), which is like Facebook but for the corporate world.
