Word: gilbert
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...computer consultant living in Atlanta, Gaskins, 21, paid $50 for the domain name dicaprio.com in 1996 after renting What's Eating Gilbert Grape on video and becoming a die-hard fan. The home page was just a hobby, a way to learn how to build a website. Then, on the day Titanic came out, the $20,000 computer that served www.dicaprio.com sank like the great ship itself. "I had to reboot it every half hour," Gaskins recalls. Finally he relocated to more heavy-duty digs donated by a for-profit site that sells Leo-related merchandise...
...Gilbert says about one quarter of hispost-doctoral students typically accept jobs inindustrial firms, and contact with industry canthus be good for his students...
...Gilbert also refuted the Globe'scharacterization of the patent system as a way of"looting" the public...
Since the 1970s, when the government owned allpatents on scientific research, scientists, theUniversity and the legal system have come torealize that the system of government funding andpatents is necessary to encourage the discovery ofnew drugs, Gilbert says...
...patent system] is very effective with alimited social cost," Gilbert says. "The 10 yearsduring which you can charge what you will is shortcompared to the eternity [for which the public hasaccess to a scientist's invention]."File photoProfessor THOMAS P. MANIATIS...