SAN FRANCISCO -- Mike Nolan's first major move after taking over as San Francisco 49ers coach in 2005 was to select Alex Smith with the No. 1 overall pick in the draft. Their fates have been linked ever since, from a rebuilding first year to a promising second...
SANTA CLARA -- For Frank Gore, the hardest part of a hard season was checking his cell phone on game days. That's when Mom used to call. Liz Gore had always checked in with some last-minute coaching. Remember to do this. You'd better not do that. ...
democratic hocus pocus with power leaders exploit a broken turbine t o appear green at their convention in Denver next month, Democratic Party officials bought into a wind turbine owned by the Wray School District on the rural plains of eastern Colorado. During the...
WASHINGTON, AFP — Former US Vice President and Nobel laureate Al Gore gave Barack Obama a resounding endorsement Monday, saying that the United States "simply cannot afford to continue the policies of the last eight years for another four." "For America to lead the world through the dangers and...
To kill time, as I wait for Gore Vidal by the reception desk in Claridge's, I leaf through the pages of his memoirs, looking at the photographs. One in particular takes my fancy: Gore aged three, in the garden of his grandfather's house in Washington DC -- a dapper little...
Last October, a revelatory Vanity Fair article called "Going After Gore" traced the dubious history of the "toxic coverage" in the US media that irreparably damaged Gore's chances in the 2000 election. The effortless charm of George W Bush was relentlessly contrasted with Gore's inability to turn charm on like...
There's nothing really wrong with the way organizational teams work-except for the fact that they are inward looking. This exception is critical, since the connections that enable the firm to seize market opportunities and leverage technological breakthroughs are on the outside. X-teams are externally oriented, and enabling them will lead...
TORSHAVN AFP — Nobel Peace Prize-winner and former US vice president Al Gore said Monday that he believes Washington will sign up to a new climate change treaty in Copenhagen in 2009. "The United States will definitely join the next treaty," Gore said at a conference on global warming...
WASHINGTON AFP — Amid fears the bitter battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama could tear the Democratic Party apart, some are hoping a heavyweight umpire like Al Gore may step into the ring. The Nobel peace prize winner and former vice president under Bill Clinton is one of...
The problem of growing income inequality in the United States has become more serious over the past thirty years. A substantial number of books, scholarly papers, reports by think tanks, government data, and recently, special feature stories in national newspapers and magazines have been published on this issue. (1) Yet,...
Can Mike Martz fix the 49ers? What does his hiring mean for running back Frank Gore? For quarterback Alex Smith? And what's the deal with that Mad Mike ego? In search of answers, we called two people who ought to know. Say hello to...
Rising star Hamilton in pole position for BBC vote as veteran 'Parky' asks his last Today BBC Sports Peronality of the Year Formula One star Lewis Hamilton right is the bookies' favourite ahead of the boxer Ricky Hatton, in a shortlist that includes no footballers. The...
OSLO AFP — Al Gore arrived in Norway on Friday to receive his Nobel Peace Prize, immediately displaying his green credentials by taking an airport shuttle rather than a limousine to travel into Oslo's city centre. The man who used to be the next president of the United States,...
WASHINGTON -- Talk about an inconvenient truth. Al Gore finally won his place in the Oval Office on Monday -- right next to George W. Bush. Forever linked by the closest and craziest presidential race in history, the two men were reunited by, of...
WASHINGTON -- Seven years after winning the popular vote for president, Al Gore finally re-entered the White House on Monday -- as a Nobel laureate. The former vice president, whose losing campaign against George W. Bush in 2000 went all the way to the Supreme Court,...
WASHINGTON -- Talk about an inconvenient truth. Al Gore finally won his place in the Oval Office on Monday -- right next to George W. Bush. Forever linked by the closest and craziest presidential race in history, the two men were reunited by, of all things,...
SANTA CLARA -- Mike Singletary will remain the 49ers assistant head coach and linebackers coach after withdrawing from consideration for the head coaching vacancy at his alma mater, Baylor University. Singletary said Thursday a couple of sticking points surfaced during his talks earlier this week with Baylor...
Generation Asset Management, the investment fund co-founded by Al Gore and that announced on Monday an alliance with the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is searching the Manhattan market for space in which to relocate its offices from Washington DC. The firm, which also has...
Memis Acar Memis Acar has been a researcher and faculty member for 30 years. He has written over 120 journal and conference papers. He recieved over two million dollars in grant money from national and international sources. Acar has graduated eight Ph.D. students and currently advises six. He is a...
Memis Acar [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Memis Acar has been a researcher and faculty member for 30 years. He has written over 120 journal and conference papers. He recieved over two million dollars in grant money from national and international sources. Acar has...
