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Giving away school supplies in a mock-retail setting is the brainchild of retailer Shannon Carter of Cincinnati, Ohio. Enrolled in a 1995 business-leadership program aimed at generating ideas to improve that city, she heard of a program housed in a Richmond, Va., warehouse called Crayons to Computers and decided "we could take that warehouse and make it fun." Carter named her free store Crayons to Computers too. "This is not brain surgery," she observes, "just a giant recycling project...
...concept of the journal was the brainchild of a year's musing on the tools of the Web, like hypertext, interactivity and multimedia, by Li and Singh...
...action in ABC's "The Practice," another law drama, which along with "Ally McBeal" is the brainchild of Boston native David Kelley, also unfolds in the city...
...idea was the brainchild of Provost HarveyV. Fineberg '67, and was raised by President NeilL. Rudenstine in his annual meeting with the GSClast April...
...report in an Israeli newspaper is to be believed. Ha'aretz, normally a sedate read, went wild Wednesday with claims that the Cold War flick inspired Israeli intelligence agents to hypnotize a young Arab prisoner into attempting to assassinate Yasser Arafat nearly 30 years ago. The plot, allegedly the brainchild of Major Benjamin Shalit, chief psychologist in the Israeli navy, seems too ridiculous for words -- the 28-year old Palestinian, codename "Fathi," was supposedly brainwashed and dispatched over the border with an exploding two-way radio. He passed it on to Arafat, but the booby trap failed...