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Many college seniors stress out about finding a job after graduation. But one Harvard alumnus created his own job by helping thousands of other students find jobs of their own. Wellie W. Chao '98 designed and implemented an on-line web application called eRecruiting.com that cuts out a vast amount of paperwork and eases the search process for millions of students along the Eastern seaboard entering the job market annually...
Cash prizes were awarded to top players in all three levels. The top prize in the uppermost level was $450; in the middle level, $200, and in the lower level $125. The total amount of prizes awarded...
Maybe. In any case, for environmentalists, "tree museum" is a phrase uttered with a shrug. The 3,500 acres of Headwaters don't really amount to a forest. Large redwood forests create their own microclimates. They are rainmakers. And the other 4,000 acres paid for by the Deal, though they have some big trees, are too fragmented to be an effective wildlife habitat for murrelets, Pacific giant salamanders and the spotted owls that loggers love to hate. In particular, they offer little protection for coho salmon, listed as threatened in the state. Salmon need cool, shaded, clear streams...
...Even the writers' room has a different mood from that of most sitcoms. Instead of the usual Buddy and Sally rat-a-tat-tat of joke pitching, there are often 15 minutes of silence, as a new idea is considered. The writers feel their words are given an unusual amount of respect, by Grammer especially. "He will try every possible way to make something work before he questions it," says writer Jeffrey Richman...
...signs that she's fighting in her husband's corner again. The First Lady has made her most direct reference to the Lewinsky scandal since the Starr report was released; on the campaign trail in Seattle late Thursday, she lashed out at Congress for "doing stuff that doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the long-term future of America." The subtext: Either Hillary's been spending too much time lately watching "Casablanca" reruns, or she really has come around to the view that the problems of three little people -- herself, Clinton and Lewinsky -- really...