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A million LIttle Pixels
Kansas City's Pitch Weekly reporter David Martin pokes holes in claims made by entrepreneur John FLowers, who got $500,000 in venture capital support from Kansas state's Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation.
Tags: Kozoru; background checks; venture capital; skunk works; computer hacker; DefCon; network security; Hiverworld; nCircle; natural language; Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation; KTEC; OPen Prairie Equity Partners; David Warthen; Ridgely Evers; Ask Jeeves; open records; instant messaging; mobile devices; cell phone; Wikipedia; Industry Ventures; reality-challenged statements
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A guide to trash management: the changing mix
Governing reports on changes that take place in local waste management systems, as governments "confront rapidly evolving solid waste policy requirements." The story looks at administrators' ambitious efforts to build costly incinerators or to increase the capacity of landfills, while the amount of solid waste is growing nationwide. Recycling programs can hardly grow anymore, the magazine reveals. The main finding is that today's counties and cities see more potential for "preventing waste through source reduction programs, spurring markets for recyclable materials and working with innovative private ventures that use or dispose of wastes."
Tags: EPA; landfills; Solid Waste Association of North America; Waste Management Inc.; Browning Ferris Industries; Chambers Development Co.; Sanfill Inc.; waste-to-energy plants
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Common Cause Magazine notes that same kinds of practices the led to the downfall of the saving and loan industry are underming the health insurance industry. Health insurers have been investing in junk bonds and other dubious ventures. The article looks at the policies of insurance companies such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield and what measures are being taken to prevent similar occurrences in the future. Spring 1993.