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Back ashore last week, Saylor took his idea public, pledging $100 million to create a nonprofit "online Ivy League-quality university." And then came an even bigger revelation. He says it will allow everyone, from cabbie in Bombay to housewife in L.A., to earn a top-notch degree--for free. "If you put a professor's best performance of his life online, you can make something even better than Harvard," says Saylor, an M.I.T. graduate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digital Dreamer | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...Call, a new CD-ROM game from Simon & Schuster Interactive ($20). Players must learn to mix from memory the more than 70 drinks featured in the game and deliver service with style (think Tom Cruise in Cocktail), all while maintaining the proper mood music and bouncing troublemakers. Those who earn the most in tips win the game. And here's a nice surprise: unlike most computer games, this one's a hybrid, meaning it'll run on either a Windows PC or a MacIntosh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Mar. 27, 2000 | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...last four players on the roster jump two slots to fill in the holes without a hitch. Freshman Sanja Bajin battled rookie counterpart Ana Radeljevic at the top seed and knocked her out in straight sets. Bajin easily stole the first set 6-2 and had to earn the second with...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Tennis Rules Old Dominion, 8-1 | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...same dollar's worth of Tide, say, sold through Priceline.com costs shareholders more: $26.11, based on Priceline's recent close of $94. And to own a dollar-size piece of the sales at fledgling dotcom grocery Webvan, you'll have to spend $228.67 on stock. P&G will earn about $4 billion this year. As for the dotcoms' earnings--are you kidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble in Brand City | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...cheap, but Buddy Derrick feels the trip is worth it. "I wanted to instill in my grandkids a sense of living life to its fullest," he says, "and to me, going on an African safari is the absolute ultimate." Those grandkids will have to earn the privilege, however, by passing Derrick's test. Pssst, John and Richard, here are the answers: Kilimanjaro; a female; true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Summer Campus | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

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