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Livingstone and her colleague Bevil Conway, who happens to be a stereoblind painter, found later that Rembrandt’s self-portrait etchings—which are mirror images of the original—portray an averted right eye. Armed with ample evidence, Livingstone and Conway concluded that Rembrandt was indeed stereoblind, a syndrome that may have helped him produce three-dimensional paintings...
...become workers in the postcollege world. Vocational schools like DeVry and Strayer, which focus on teaching practical skills, are seeing a mini-boom. Their enrollment grew 48% from 1996 to 2000. More traditional schools are scrambling to give their courses a practical spin. In the fall, Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., will introduce a program called the Odyssey project, which the school says will encourage students to "think outside the book" in areas like "professional and leadership development" and "service to the world." Dozens of other schools have set up similar initiatives...
...ACQUIRED. Business-software manufacturer PEOPLESOFT INC., by rival Oracle Corp., ending a bitter 18-month takeover battle during which former PeopleSoft head Craig Conway compared Larry Ellison, Oracle's aggressive CEO, to Genghis Khan; in Pleasanton, California. Oracle closed the $10.3 billion deal after repeated rebuffs, making it the number two player in the lucrative business-applications industry behind Germany...
Despite the surge in all-Christmas stations, most insiders see no saturation. "It's hard to get sick of songs you only hear for six weeks," says Bill Conway, manager of KOIT, one of the Bay Area's top stations, whose ratings have climbed during its holiday switch. The Ronettes' Sleigh Ride, sure. But has he heard Last Christmasby Wham!? --By Sean Gregory
...Clear Your Desktop PeopleSoft fired CEO Craig Conway, citing a "loss of confidence" in his ability. Investors took the U.S. software firm's move as a step toward agreeing to a $7.7 billion takeover bid from Oracle. Conway had opposed the deal...