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...Mosaic Communications was supposed to have the edge in the race to improve on NCSA Mosaic -- the Internet "browser" that made the complex computer network surprisingly easy to use. After all, the Silicon Valley start-up hired away most of the hackers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who had written the original program, and their new version -- Mosaic Netscape -- is suddenly the hottest thing on the Net. So why are AT& T, IBM and Digital Equipment licensing a competing version from low-profile Spyglass? Because Spyglass has something Mosaic never bothered to get -- a license from...
...Mosaic is both the road map and the steering wheel," says Marc Andreessen, the 23-year-old programmer who co-authored the original version of Mosaic while an undergraduate working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. Because the program was developed with government money, the students gave it away free. It soon spread through the network like a virus. A million copies were downloaded from the NCSA computer system in the first year. Another million were distributed in the next six months. Meanwhile, the number of Web "sites" you can visit...
...many Americans, these modern-day ogres offer a perverse thrill. "Serial killers are the werewolves of the modern age," declares Hart Fisher of Champaign, Illinois, who published the Dahmer comic. "By day they walk around unassuming, then boom! By night they turn into monsters. People want to know why." The most fascinated seem to be the most nonviolent people of all, "the kind who would find a spider in the bathroom and take it outside with a tissue," says crime writer Ann Rule, who turned her experience on a suicide- prevention hotline alongside fellow volunteer -- and serial killer -- Ted Bundy...
Jacobsen, presently an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will arrive this summer and will likely begin teaching next spring, said Cabot Professor of Chemistry Roy G. Gordon, who chairs the Chemistry department...
Much of this, charges Claire Gaudiani, president of Connecticut College, amounts to "dirty tricks." She argues that duplicitous parents are cheating the needy, defrauding taxpayers and forcing colleges to waste money on detective work. Other administrators agree. Says Orlo Austin, aid director of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "There's a whole group of people out there who make their living finding loopholes that were never intended." Families say that everyone else is doing it, that no one gets hurt and that college costs are way out of line. But in fact someone often does get hurt, since...