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...website. Within weeks, NASA was scrambling to put up the satellites to make his dream come true. Last July 4 he skipped the fireworks so he could stare for five hours into his office computer as it downloaded Pathfinder's first images from the surface of Mars. Another Gore brainchild--he calls it "digital earth"--would allow students with computers to zoom in on any spot of an onscreen planet to learn everything they possibly want to know about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore's Costly High-Wire Act | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...Cambridge New College", the brainchild of organizer Joel B. Pollak '99, would organize student-led classes and "create new intellectual space on campus"--but not secede from the College itself...

Author: By Talhia T. Tuck, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Undergrads Plan Self-Led Classrooms | 4/28/1998 | See Source »

...exam began in 1938 when the Mathematical Association of America took over the responsibility for carrying out what was the brainchild of William Lowell Putnam, Harvard class of 1882. This year, 2,510 students from 419 colleges and universities devoted a Saturday to the six-hour exam, on which fewpeople score any points...

Author: By Eran A. Mukamel, CONTRIBUTING STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Sweeps Math Contest | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

...students, Mendoza reported, had been culled by herself and her associate Junior Bedayan from the schools of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The program, itself, was the brainchild of Bedayan and Harvard Medical School Professor of Neurology David D. Potter who is also involved in FAS education in the Boston area...

Author: By Rodrigo Cruz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sioux Actors Dramatize Dangers of Alcohol | 4/8/1998 | See Source »

...brainchild of Valerie and Lawrence J. Kelleher, Celebrate America! sells everything from birdhouses in the shape of the Jefferson Memorial to one of the centerpieces used at Ronald Reagan's 75th birthday party--a caricature of a rather young-looking Gipper...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 4/8/1998 | See Source »

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