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After over five years as Lowell House's senior tutor, Eugene C. McAfee will leave Harvard at the end of this academic year to join the ministry at St. Gile's Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland...
...explain the literally unprecedented Harry Potter phenomenon, starting with Rowling, now 35, whose life has been changed utterly by the product of her imagination. Seven years ago, she was the single mother of a small daughter, living in a two-room flat in Edinburgh, listening to mice skittering behind the walls. Now she is internationally famous and earning, according to various estimates, somewhere in the range of $30 million to $40 million a year. Once, during a bad patch, she dreaded the hostile looks she would attract while lining up at the local post office to claim her weekly income...
Rowling has managed to maintain a private life despite the maelstrom of attention and adulation roaring about her. She now has a comfortable house in Edinburgh that she keeps off limits to outsiders. When not traveling, she takes daughter Jessica, 7, to school each morning and is able to stroll and window-shop on Edinburgh's Princes Street almost always unrecognized by fans...
Clarke, a lanky, earnest 23-year-old, became fascinated with computers after seeing the 1983 hacker-fantasy flick War-Games as a child in Navan, Ireland. A computer-science major at the University of Edinburgh, Clarke developed Freenet as a student project over the summer of 1998. His key innovation was the element of anonymity. PCs hooked up to Freenet (the software can be downloaded from freenet.sourceforge.net become "nodes," meaning they are host to data files deposited on them for varying amounts of time. There's no central server, as with Napster. And there's no need for users...
...takes patience to spot the fleeting satellites skimming across the night sky plus a certain skill at celestial mechanics to divine an orbit from these observations. But Molczan and his Web cronies have become highly proficient. Russell Eberst of Edinburgh, Scotland, has made some 170,000 orbital observations over a storied career. Mike McCants of Austin, Texas, has spent hours on end scanning the sky for lost satellites. Especially gifted is Jonathan McDowell, a researcher at the Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astro-physics who can process orbital data like a super-computer...