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Harvard must imbue its students with a spirit of service. The world has innumerable problems and some of the best and brightest are watching from the sidelines. The time to serve...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: Time To Serve | 2/8/1996 | See Source »

...take-home lesson, Gray said, is that American not only needs to encourage the best and the brightest but also to create opportunities for the rest...

Author: By Amita M. Shukla, | Title: Negro College Fund President Speaks at IOP | 2/6/1996 | See Source »

...next December 2, 1996. If it lands on Mars as planned on July 4, 1997, it would be the first time since two Viking missions landed there in 1976. "Mars has always had this romantic hold on us," says TIME aerospace correspondent Jerry Hannifin. "It's one of the brightest stars in the sky and has been the subject of speculation about life there for many years. We know, for instance, that there is enough moisture there to have ice deposits on its north and south poles and temperatures, though very cold, somewhat similar to those on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today's Low: a Chilly 200 Degrees Below Zero | 2/1/1996 | See Source »

Although these schools do not have the same resources as elite private boarding schools, they are hardly bereft. Stuyvesant is generously funded by New York in hopes of cultivating the city's best and brightest, while Boston Latin draws funds from a large alumni base...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Preparatory schools & The admissions process | 1/24/1996 | See Source »

...MICROSYSTEMS HAD a problem on its hands. One of the company's brightest software developers had created a new computer-programming language called Oak that nobody seemed to want. Originally designed for writing control software for the computer chips that run microwave ovens and other state-of-the-art household appliances, it had been reconfigured several times over the past five years--for cable-TV set-top boxes, for video-game machines, for personal computer CD-ROMS. But every time it looked as if Oak might finally find a home, the deal somehow fell through. Even its name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY SUN'S JAVA IS HOT | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

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