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...mouse. Within four months 75% of all Net users were peering at the Web through the window of the Netscape browser. Netscape's co-founder Marc Andreessen and his band of brainy programmers grabbed the world's fastest-growing market despite an entrenched competitor: NSCA Mosaic, the breakthrough browser Andreessen himself had helped write as a student at the University of Illinois...
...first breakthrough came when he landed a job as secretary and telegrapher to Tom Scott, a powerful overlord of the Pennsylvania Railroad. At 23 Carnegie headed Pennsy's Pittsburgh division and began to rake in a small fortune from outside investments ranging from oil to iron bridges. When he was 33, the rich young man privately lectured himself that his continued pursuit of wealth "must degrade me beyond hope of permanent recovery." Yet he couldn't abandon the money chase. "Put all your eggs into one basket," Carnegie once advised, "and then watch that basket." For him that basket brimmed...
Higgins Professor of Biochemistry Stephen C. Harrison, who worked with the research team, said that while this is not "some major breakthrough...in the history of AIDS research," it is certainly an advance...
After defending against the Orange Line, the Crimson will have to battle the Bulldogs, led by junior Jeff Hamilton. Hamilton had a breakthrough season last year, earning 20 goals and 27 assists...
...recently as last week, a breakthrough seemed so remote that both union officials and the University explored the possibility of bringing in a mediator to help settle the dispute...