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...ballots of most states. Does that mean you are mocking the millions of Americans who feel that something needs to be done to drastically change the government's corrupt practices? Making a joke out of those candidates who can make this country great is insulting. EITAN GAUCHMAN, 17 Champaign, Illinois Via E-mail...
THOMAS EWING (R) District 15 (East central--Champaign; Kankakee...
BORN: Feb. 21, 1941, New York City EDUCATION: Wellesley College, B.A., 1962; Boston U, M.A., 1964; U of Illinois, Ph.D., 1976 FAMILY: Husband, John; three children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Economist POLITICAL CAREER: Champaign County board, 1972-76; Champaign County auditor, 1976-92; Illinois House, 1992-95 ADDRESS: 313 North Mattis, Suite 209, Champaign...
MADISON, Wisconsin: Scientists have found ordinary vinegar in a stellar cloud 25,000 light years from earth, a discovery that may help explain the formation of life. Radio astronomers from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, found faint traces of vinegar, or acetic acid, in a cloud of gas and dust named Sagittarius B2 North. Ammonia was discovered in interstellar space more than 25 years ago, which makes it plausible, according to one of the scientists on the Illinois team, that molecules of ammonia and acetic acid linked up to form basic amino acid. Amino acids, which are the basic...
Andreessen grew up in Wisconsin, where his father is a retired salesman and his mother works for Lands' End. While an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he helped develop a program called Mosaic that makes it easier to navigate around the Internet. Paid $6.85 an hour, he was actually supposed to be writing software for three-dimensional scientific visualization. The university was enthusiastic about Mosaic, however. It gave the program away, earning the team that wrote it the undying devotion of the Internet underground. Jim Clark, who had founded Silicon Graphics, a computer firm known...