Word: brainchild
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Free Enterprise Dept.: If you have been wondering about the mysterious banner hanging from Holworthy Hall that reads "The Giant Sloth--The Legend Continues," it is the brainchild of Winthrop House resident Randy K. Toth '90. The giant sloth, a now extinct species that gained fame in Darwin's Origin of Species, slept 22 hours per day and woke only to eat. Believing that the somnolent creature is an appropriate mascot for some Harvard students, Toth decided to launch a Giant Sloth Movement...
...Head of the Charles was the brainchild of three men: Ernie Arlett, Howard MacIntyre Jr. and D'Arcy MacMahon. Arlett, a British rowing luminary, was head rowing coach at Northeastern; his familiarity with the formats and traditions of head racing was invaluable. MacIntyre and MacMahon, members of the Cambridge Boat Club, were instrumental in organizing the regatta...
...Hanes targeted the new Ms. magazine to sell the Lindsay ad. That's right, the mouthpiece of the movement, Gloria Steinem's brainchild, now sells silky pantyhose and sexual stereotypes along with consciousness-raising and feminist politics...
...technological lineage of RIC and almost every other second-wave system can be traced back to Mycin, an expert system written at Stanford in the mid- 1970s. Named for a group of antibiotics, Mycin was the brainchild of a Ph.D. candidate named Edward Shortliffe, who designed it to help physicians diagnose certain infectious diseases and choose appropriate remedies. After painstakingly interviewing doctors about the process of diagnosis and treatment, Shortliffe and company programmed Mycin with some 500 rules to guide its decisions...
Having established "Candidates '88" as aninfluential program, Kalb muses about the futureof his TV brainchild. "I would love to be able in'92 to do a series called "Candidates '92," hesays. "And on the basis of the reaction of the PBSnetwork, and the reaction of most of the peoplewho have written about the series, I think that itwill be realistic and that it will happen...