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...WNBA needs something--anything--to attract fans now that the league's novelty is wearing...
Eight Harvard student promoters, working closely with club management, sent out e-mails to attract students at Harvard and on other local college campuses, said Daniel Houston '01, who was in charge of promoting on campus...
...donation fund controlled by the administration, instead of allowing each donor to pick his or her pet project and leave the rest of the University to fend for itself. Then, funds could be directed to the departments or facilities that most urgently need them, not the ones that naturally attract the greatest attention from financial heavyweights...
Whatever the reason, museum staffs are realizing that to attract families--and future art patrons--it's no longer enough to put a few reproductions in a corner and call it a family room. The appeal of a great collection is strong, but so is a program designed just for parents and kids...
...true import of their findings. In 1660s Germany, Magdeburg Mayor Otto von Guericke tries to solve the riddle of a compass needle that doesn't always point (as people thought it should) at the Pole Star. He rubs a model of the earth made of sulfur in order to attract his experimental compass needle. The rubbing produces a noise and a spark (which Guericke mentions in a casual footnote) that turns out to have been electricity...