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...Justin Boyan found the software for his home computer balky and difficult to use. So he wrote his own. His program was chosen "The Best of 1987" by PC Magazine. Today Boyan, 19, a math and computer-sciences major at the University of Chicago, is also president of his own company, Boyan Communications. Though the firm has its headquarters in an unusual place -- Boyan's dorm room -- the young entrepreneur so far has sold 2,000 copies of his software...
...Boyan also happens to be one of 20 winners of this year's TIME College Achievement Awards. Now in its fourth year, the program singles out academically gifted college juniors who have made their mark in an extraordinary way, whether in their future fields, community service, athletics or the arts. Co-sponsored by Volkswagen United States, the competition attracted nearly 600 applicants this year. Each winner receives a $3,000 award...
THIRD VARSITY 1. HARVARD (bow Chris Richards, 2; Craig Boyan; 3, Steve Huefner; 4, Alex Litvack; 5, Jamie Hanson; 6, Chris McDougall; 7, Steve Potter; stroke, Dean Robinson; coxswain, Ed Castrol 6:34 2. Northeastern...
...million Americans went abroad in 1966, and this year that figure may go up by as much as another 2,000,000. Why now? Says Travel Guide Temple Fielding: "The big story this season is the enormous increase in mass-v. class-tourism." Adds San Francisco Travel Agent Boyan Ribnikar: "With those group air fares, how can you afford to stay home...
Guarding against such an accident is easy. In the Annals of Surgery, Dr. C. Paul Boyan of Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center describes a plastic coil immersed in a bath of water kept at blood heat. The blood, passing through the coil on its way from the transfusion bottle to the patient's arm, reaches his heart at just the right temperature. Heart stoppage used to occur in about 50% of patients who got six pints or more of chilled blood; it occurs in only 7% now that they get coil-warmed blood...