Ex.2. Match two halves.

1. Steve Jobs, the architect of Apple’s phenomenal success and one of the biggest influences on the business of modern

2. As the world ponders Jobs’ legacy, it is perhaps worth asking if an

3.Jobs, adopted into an Armenian family in California, had no

4. Quite the opposite: his background was one of the hippy counterculture, and he described his time in

5. There remains a chance for Russia to produce.

6.The Skolkovo innovation project could yet

provide the spark needed to kick-start new high-tech projects, but the danger is

7. As the examples of Google’s Sergey Brin and other émigrés have shown, the new

8. The question is, however: Will they pursue their

9. So to make the analogy with Russia, it would have been as if he had been

10. It also requires a sea change in the way the authorities encourage innovation and

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a. generation of Russians will almost certainly be at the forefront of global innovation in the years ahead.

b. that under bureaucratic state control anyone in the Steve Jobs mold would quickly be stifled, corrupted or simply emigrate to another country with a climate more conducive to invention and new thinking.

c. diversity – without crippling bureaucracy.

d. dreams here in Russia, or abroad?

e. pursued as Mikhail Khodorkovsky or Yevgeny Chichvarkin. And we all know what happened there.

f. innovator and businessman like him could succeed in Russia.

j. computing, died of pancreatic cancer Wednesday. He was 56.

k. an ashram in India, including LSD experiences, as “one of the two or three most important things” he did in his life.

i. innovators of Jobs’ stature, it is true

l . insider connections and no education at a top university.