Word: braine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie and video game. The object of Trespasser is to escape a dinosaur-infested island. Three years in the making, the game features whizzy technology, including artificial intelligence for the dinosaurs. "They have emotions just like we do," says Brady Bell, the game's associate producer. "They have a brain and experience fear, hunger, thirst, pain, annoyance and curiosity." The game is driven by what Bell calls a "first-ever, real-time physics engine." Wade out into a pond, for instance, and watch the water ripple gently ahead of you. Bend down and pick up a flower and throw...
...brain drain" is certainly a familiar concept to the folks at home. Nebraska has started giving their brightest students generous financial packages (like the ones the top football players get) in an attempt to keep them around for college, increasing the chances they will stay in the state permanently...
More curricular results of Rudenstine's"knitting the University together" includeprograms in Mind, Brain and Behavior;Environmental Science and Public Policy; and thegraduate program in Ethics and the Professions,all of which combine the resources of severaldepartments in one course of study...
...bitter end of this tightfisted semester, the University did pledge to open higher education's largest pocketbook for financial aid--spurred by the threat of an undergraduate brain drain. Then it backed away from that pledge for a summer of calculating how much is just enough...
...only son of James H. Rowe Jr. '31--anoriginal member of the New Deal Brain Trust underPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt '04--Rowe was bornand raised in Washington...