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...Soon as we got there our job was to put together an accelerator, which was brought from the University of Illinois in Champaign. A team of us--Bernie Waldman from Notre Dame and John Manley, who'd come from Illinois and Columbia, and people from Nebraska and Wisconsin--we all pitched in. We worked six days a week to get the Bomb first. There's been a lot of stories that maybe we had the Bomb and were sitting on it, that we could have used it in Germany but because we're Anglo-Saxons or whatever, that we only...
...right? This is an experiment we can all do for ourselves. There's little risk in trying some extra gratitude and kindness, and the results--should they materialize--are their own reward. --With reporting by Elizabeth Coady/ Champaign-Urbana, Dan Cray/ San Francisco, Alice Park/New York and Jeffrey Ressner/ Los Angeles...
...Nobel award for psychology went to Daniel Simons, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Harvard’s own Christopher Chabris. Their study, “Gorillas in Our Midst”—performed at Harvard—showed that people who selectively focused on one thing often overlooked normally conspicuous surroundings, including men in gorilla suits...
...cheaper workers abroad. "It's a flashy finding," says Paul Oyer, associate professor of economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. "But these are two separate issues, and there's no reason to think they're related." In fact, a 1998 study by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign economist Kevin Hallock, published in the American Economic Review, found no causal relationship between layoffs and CEO pay increases, even though the two often happen together. --By Barbara Kiviat
...probably fitting to commemorate his life with his picture on money, considering the era of greed he presided over. It's much more appropriate than naming an airport after him, which only added insult to the injury he did when he fired striking air-traffic controllers. JOYCE D. MEYER Champaign...