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...computers accessible to all; in Boston. During his 25-year tenure as director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science, Dertouzos focused on developing easier-to-use technology. He recruited Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web, and spearheaded the establishment of the World Wide Web Consortium, which devised a common markup language for Internet use. DIED. JUAN MUNOZ, 48, internationally acclaimed Spanish figurative sculptor known for creating large architectural installations; of a heart attack, in Ibiza, Spain. Mu?oz was at the height of his career: last year he won Spain's national award for the plastic...
...artwork and architecture that should distract anyone waiting in a long line. "We are trying to make an airport an enjoyable place to be," says Hans Mohrmann, the enthusiastic Dutchman who is president of Schiphol U.S.A., a division of Amsterdam's airport-management company, which is part of the consortium that developed T-4. Says David Sigman, development general manager for the consortium: "We want to offer a place people might even come for fun, not just for an airplane flight...
...basic understanding of the aging process: the vast majority thought, for example, that incontinence, confusion and depression were normal signs of aging rather than potentially reversible conditions. "There's absolutely no doubt that these facilities are more dangerous than nursing homes," says Karen Love, executive director of the Consumer Consortium on Assisted Living...
Until now, the most effective limits on the water trade have been economic. Compared with the costs of shipping freshwater by sea, "it's still cheaper to get freshwater by other means, even by desalinization of seawater," admits Turner of WaterBank.com But Turner, who is assembling a consortium of Mexican municipalities to import water from the U.S., adds that aging infrastructure and mounting worries over contaminated groundwater are helping make larger ventures worthwhile. Schwab's Coy estimates that the world market for private distribution of water, and the bill for wastewater treatment, now amounts to $300 billion annually. The market...
...consortium, made up of the libraries of all Ivy League schools and several other elite universities, attempts to achieve cost reductions in electronic library acquisitions for member institutions...