Michael Bloom, in Los Angeles, and later worked for HBO in New York before returning to the West Coast to join a dot-com start-up called ALFY, a Web site for kids.
While many across the pond are happy with the status quo--or better yet are happy to join the massive corporate and government bureaucracies that dot the European landscape ahead of corporate and government pensions after early retirement--restless Americans in many instances want more than the status quo.