Quora just announced the departure of co-founder Charlie Cheever (and the news surprised me).
"We liked the idea of people using their real-world credentials and reputation, " says Cheever.
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"If before we could extract three telephone books worth of data, now we're extracting about thirty, " says Cheever.
Cheever injured his back in an unfortunate incident with a Porta-John and T.
There's a bump in the road when Cheever's wife hands him divorce papers.
"We could take all this information and send it over the Internet to Toyota's engineers in Tokyo, " says Cheever.
The second vaccine to watch, Cheever says, comes from biotech Oncothyreon of Seattle, which is collaborating with Merck KgaA of Germany.
In an interview, Cheever declined to comment, as did Matt Cohler, another friend who left the company, and who invested in Quora.
When Cheever gets his marching orders from his wife, for example, T.
Cheever (Tim Robbins, underplaying nicely) is impatient to get back to his wife and son in Missouri now that his enlistment is up.
"I think it allows the driver to focus more on just driving and not have to manipulate things inside the car, " says Cheever.
"Our type of racing is very technologically advanced, " says Eddy Cheever , the team's owner, who drove to a win in the 1998 Indy 500.
So the Cheever team replaced their existing system with new Internet Protocol-based hardware from Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ).
At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta, Dr. Ellis Cheever (Laurence Fishburne), the deputy director, takes charge of tracking and fighting the disaster.
"In a 20-page section...there are explicit references to: The Magic Mountain, John Cheever, Death in Venice, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, Hawthorne and Death of a Salesman, " he wrote.
Now that the system is in place, Cheever's starting to look ahead to future races and plan what kinds of new sensors and capabilities he could add to the vehicles.
Like all writers (it's almost safe to say) he was a big drinker. (See Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Cheever, Mailer, et al.) I once startled Gore by saying I'd just read that each drink kills more than 10, 000 brain cells.
That relationship moves to a new level on Sunday, when two cars from the Red Bull Cheever Racing team compete in the Indianapolis 500, armed with a cutting-edge Internet Protocol-based wireless system that gives the entire team access to a wealth of real-time information and communications during the race.
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