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Powerball, the brainchild of physicist Ed Stanek, began in 1992 as a way for relatively less populous states to gain access to large money-generating player bases. The game works this way: to win the jackpot, players must match five numbers, chosen from 1 to 49, and hit the Powerball, chosen from numbers 1 to 42. Matching all but the Powerball yields a $100,000 prize. Matching the Powerball number itself, but no other numbers, wins $3. Players can opt to chose their own numbers or purchase "quick pick" tickets with computer-generated selections. The Lucky 13 always went...
...ED EDUCATION: IT CAN BE KOOKIE...
...friends and family, writer-director-actor Edward Burns is known as Ed or Eddie. But in the credits for his latest role, in Saving Private Ryan, he's listed more formally as Edward. Seems '50s television veteran Edd ("Kookie") Byrnes claims sole right to the name Ed Burns, no matter how it's spelled. Here's how to tell them apart...
...narrowly focused that they would not really be applicable toward a degree," says Richard Vigilante, director of the Information Technologies Institute, part of New York University's School of Continuing Education and Professional Studies. Enrollment at the institute goes up about 12% every year. Noncredit courses throughout the continuing-ed school range in cost from...
...only people working for big outfits who are enrolling either. Self-employed decorative artist Jill Saddic, 29, of New York City recently completed a one-semester course in multimedia and design at N.Y.U.'s continuing-ed school. The certificate she received will help springboard her further into computer graphic arts. "I didn't really have any kind of computer background, but I felt that I needed a really specialized course to advance myself," says Saddic, who has a bachelor's degree in illustration. "Going back to school for another full-fledged degree just would not have been practical...