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...service, brainchild of ex-Wall Streeter Jeff Bezos, 33, is widely considered the hottest retail site in cyberspace. Few book lovers would forgo entirely the joys of browsing an actual bookstore, but Amazon offers considerable pleasures of its own. The site is so fast and responsive it almost feels alive; it's thrilling to have every title in the language at your fingertips, and reader-produced reviews add a layer of egalitarian interactivity. In the past year everyone from Business Week to the New Yorker has sung Amazon's praises. Bill Gates buys books there, and he doesn't even...
Dance Day was the brainchild of Danielle J. Zacks '98. She took the idea to Kristen J. Campolattaro '99 and they worked together to bring the project to fruition...
...really who in Bronson's book? At the heart of the new machine is a revolutionary computer language called the "hypnotizer," the brainchild of an archetypal "pear-shaped" geek named Tiny Curtis Reese. He bears an uncanny resemblance to James Gosling, the pear-shaped Sun Microsystems programmer who created Java, the computer lingua franca of the Internet...
...requirement that all amendments originate either in Congress or a state legislature. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled two years ago that neither Congress nor the separate states could unilaterally impose term limits, meaning that it would take a Constitutional amendment to implement limits. The ballot-branding idea is the brainchild of U.S. Term Limits, a citizens group which zealously advocates limiting service to 12 years in the U.S. Senate and 6 in the House; the group finds no other limits to tenure acceptable. Referenda with essentially the same details as the Arkansas measure have passed in Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Maine...
...that the U.N. charter provides for a supranational police force which would undertake peacekeeping missions. I had always assumed the isolationist fears of an international army that did not operate under U.S. supervision were paranoid fantasies, but I didn't know that such an army was, in fact, the brainchild and fondest hope of those who founded...