60 percent of working scientists developed an interest in their field by the age of 11 (Roper Starch Worldwide) ... 51 percent of North Americans would choose a job with more flexible hours over one offering greater career advancement (Randstad's North America) ... Net-capable wireless devices will outnumber Net-connected computers by the end of 2002 (IDC) ... The average owner of a WAP handset uses it to access the Internet less than once a week (Deutsche Telekom) ... 420 disease agents and other targets for therapeutic drugs have been identified in the past century; genome research will pinpoint another 3,000 to 10,000 in the next decade (Thomas Weisel Partners) ... With estimated 2000 revenues of $850 billion, the Internet industry will outpace cars and trucks ($728 billion)and life insurance ($724 billion) (Cisco Systems and UT at Austin) ... The number of paid US workers based at home has doubled since 1991, comprising 3.3 percent of today's total workforce (Bureau of Labor Statistics) ,45.2 percent of surveyed companies worth more than $10 billion worldwide have replaced their CEO within the past three years (Drake Beam Morin) ... 260 of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers are now used only for business applications, not scientific research (University of Mannheim/University of Tennessee)
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