Kanwal Rekhi was one of the first engineers from India to strike it rich in Silicon Valley. Back in 1989 primordial ooze in the dotcom age he sold his networking firm ExceLan to Novell for a cool $210 million. But it’s a near-miracle that Rekhi had a firm to sell at all. When he and two other Indians went to venture capital firms for funding to start ExceLan in 1982, a lot of doors slammed in their faces.
The Tragic Stories of the Lotterys Unluckiest Winners
Getty ImagesWinnings: $31 million
Time until bust: 20 months
Billie Bob Harrell, Jr. thought his problems were over when he won the $31 million Texas Lotto jackpot in June 1997. Nearly broke and constantly moving between low-paying jobs, with a wife and three children to support, the first of his $1.24 million annual payouts seemed like the light at the end of the tunnel. Instead, it was the beginning of an annus horribilis for the 47-year-old Texan.
The Trump-Russia controversy may put 'wartime consigliere' Steve Bannon back in the spotlight
Bannon was a prominent behind-the-scenes voice during the election and the presidential transition period. But after a number of policy blunders like the immigration order and Obamacare replacement bill, and ideological spats with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, it seemed Bannon may be on his last legs in the White House. That may change following new revelations around the president's and his associates' ties to Russia, as well as what critics characterize as the president's attempts to impede an active FBI investigation into the Trump campaign's potential collusion with Russia during the 2016 election.
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Women Doctors Are Paid $20,000 Less Than Male Doctors In academic medicine, female full professors earn the same amount as male associate professors By Mandy Oaklander July 11, 2016 ncG1vNJzZmismaKyb6%2FOpmatmZdkxKKzxGaemqhf
Wednesday Words: Hoodies, Cockneys and Chipteases
David McGlynn Neat-o neologism: “chiptease”
Connie Eble, a University of North Carolina professor and one of the country’s leading slang gurus, has long collected neologisms from college students. And one of the terms she discovered this year was “chiptease,” as in the “disappointing discovery that a bag of chips contains fewer chips than the size of the bag would [suggest].” She noted that the term was likely too specific to last—the best slang is adaptable, like all creatures.
What Hideo Kojima Wants You to Learn From Death Stranding
Nearly four years ago, Hideo Kojima felt alone in the world. The celebrated video game auteur had just left Konami, his corporate and creative home of 30 years. “I had nothing around me,” says Kojima, 56, “but a dream and a passion to create.” As he worked to build Kojima Productions, the company he started after leaving Konami, he realized that, in fact, he had spent his life building connections with fellow creative types, like Guillermo Del Toro and F.
'The Beanie Bubble' Directors On Exploring the American Dream System
This summer, “Barbie” has revived the box office, making nearly $500 million worldwide in its first week. Earlier this year, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” surpassed the billion-dollar mark. If those two success are any indication, it seems that nostalgia sells — particularly nostalgia for classic toys and characters to which moviegoers have a personal connection.
“The Beanie Bubble” (streaming Friday on Apple TV+) centers around the Beanie Baby craze of the ’90s.
10 Questions for Caroline Kennedy
These are unusually public days for Caroline Kennedy, 44. Her book Profiles in Courage for Our Time, an update of her father’s Pulitzer prizewinner, came out just as one of this year’s Profile in Courage Awards was given to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Kennedy spoke to TIME’s Andrea Sachs.
YOU’VE DONE FOUR BOOKS. IS THAT WHERE YOU SEE YOUR FUTURE?
Yes, I would love to continue to do this. I don’t think all that far ahead [laughs], but I do enjoy it.
1975 Trabant - The 50 Worst Cars of All Time
This is the car that gave Communism a bad name. Powered by a two-stroke pollution generator that maxed out at an ear-splitting 18 hp, the Trabant was a hollow lie of a car constructed of recycled worthlessness (actually, the body was made of a fiberglass-like Duroplast, reinforced with recycled fibers like cotton and wood). A virtual antique when it was designed in the 1950s, the Trabant was East Germany's answer to the VW Beetle a "
21 celebrities you forgot guest starred on 'Criminal Minds'
Read on for a refresher on all the celebrity cameos in "Criminal Minds." Aaron Paul dabbled in crime in season one before his breakout role on "Breaking Bad." ADVERTISEMENT
One of the earliest celebrity appearances comes from "Breaking Bad" star Aaron Paul in season one of "Criminal Minds," three years before he moved on to (fictional) meth-making. Paul's role was small but memorable as Michael Zizzo, a punk-goth troublemaker who was, at one point, the prime suspect in the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU)'s investigation of killings and kidnappings by a group of Satanic worshippers.