Each time a PlayStation 2 or Nintendo GameCube makes its way atop another television, or another family subscribes to an online game service, what passes for entertainment today--our movies and our stars, the Steven Spielbergs and Meg Ryans--fades just a bit, and we edge just a bit forward from our position as couch potatoes into couch possibilities.
Last week in Tampa, Meg Lanker-Simons, a blogger on assignment for Tumblr, caught up with former RNC chairman Michael Steele outside a branch of Wet Willies, a chain mostly known for its assortment of slushy alcoholic drinks.
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But you will see Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)headed by Meg Whitman, one-time California gubernatorial candidate and former chief executive of EBay.
Scientists at the institute are conducting some of the first experiments using magnetoencephalography, or MEG, brain-imaging machines on children.
Her big-screen films included a pair directed by Nora Ephron: the 1998 Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan romance "You've Got Mail" and 1996's "Michael" starring John Travolta.
No one is predicting a return to the company's heyday in the 1990s, when its blue triangle logo was everywhere and its chirpy "You've Got Mail" greeting inspired the title of a hit Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan romantic comedy.
"We are concerned that vulnerable families still living in temporary camps won't treat this storm as a serious threat after Tropical Storm Emily didn't hit Port-au-Prince as predicted, " warned World Vision's Meg Sattler in Port-au-Prince.
Still, they fared better than Steve Ballmer of Microsoft and Meg Whitman of Hewlett-Packard, who were absent from the Top 50 rankings.
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And now Meg Whitman, ex-CEO eBay, the new President and CEO, apparently is also facing serious challenges in pulling HPQ out of its quagmire.
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Web 1.0 billionaires on the list include one-time AOL chief Steve Case, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, and Yahoo co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo.
People waited in line for an hour to get Whitman's autograph--she signed collectible "Meg cards, " T shirts, even a forehead--and to bend her ear.
Hewlett recently introduced a number of new multi-function devices, and CEO Meg Whitman said that previous management had failed to keep H-P competitive in the fastest growing portions of the market.
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Another technology miss came from Hewlett-Packard, now led by E-Bay veteran Meg Whitman.
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman is on stage at the Morgan Stanley technology conference in San Francisco this afternoon, where she no doubt will try to persuade investors that the turnaround at the IT giant is well underway.
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In June Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman, the ex-CEOs of Hewett-Packard and eBay , won their respective California primaries for senator and governor, while BP 's Tony Hayward, a current CEO, battled environmental and public relations disasters both in the oil-slicked Gulf of Mexico and while watching a regatta off the coast of England.
Among the prominent conservative names lending their view: former Utah governor and presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, Hewlitt-Packard chief executive and former California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida), and actor Clint Eastwood.
The director, Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote the script with his wife, Meg, pretends to confront the chaos of contemporary urban life: free-floating anger and violence, racial abrasions, the fragility of family bonds.
Mackays said MEG Renewables would own and project-manage sites, ensuring continuity of supply throughout a site's operational lease.
Meg Whitman sat in an eight-by-eight-foot cubicle in eBay's San Jose headquarters.
Where other celebrities (Madonna, the Jolie-Pitt clan, Meg Ryan) are fast to announce their intent to adopt and introduce their new children to the world in a public relations blitz, Bullock and James kept mum.
Her appointment follows a series of high-profile CEO changes in the tech sector, with Meg Whitman recently named to succeed Leo Apotheker as CEO at Hewlett-Packard, and Tim Cook having succeeded Steve Jobs at Apple.
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The advance provides evidence to support a controversial idea, called multiple-exciton generation (MEG), which theorizes that it is possible for an electron that has absorbed light energy, called an exciton, to transfer that energy to more than one electron, resulting in more electricity from the same amount of absorbed light.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. named five new directors to the board yesterday, including three women: Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay and ex-California gubernatorial candidate, Patricia Russo, ex-CEO of Alcatel-Lucent and Dominique Senequier, CEO of Paris-based AXA Private Equity.
The pre-school animation nominees are The Koala Brothers, Peppa Pig, Meg and Mog and Pingu, while last year's pre-school live action winner Balamory defends its title against Boogie Beebies, My First and Something Special.
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Hewlett-Packard in September named Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay, as its new president and CEO.
Meg Kennedy, 82, of Westcliff-on-Sea, is currently playing a teacher in Little Red Riding Hood at the Palace Theatre in Southend.
Mr Collier wiped away tears as he described how he had completed some earth moving at the site in Ffordd Penrhwylfa when he saw the five-foot wall collapse as Meg walked past.
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