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...appendix of the book cited other scientists who had not been included in the rankings, including Aristotle and Harvard Noble laureate and geneticist Loeb University Professor Walter Gilbert...
...combat teen smoking, it is a series of role-playing and problem-solving exercises with not even a mention of marijuana until lesson No. 3. "The idea is to present drug resistance in a large context of social skills kids need to navigate the minefield of adolescence," says Gilbert Botvin, director of Cornell University's Institute for Prevention Research, who developed Life Skills based on behavioral data about teens...
This week CyberCash, based in Reston, Virginia, launches a product that could change all that, and turn the Web into one giant vending machine. The company's CyberCoin system will allow online "microtransactions" of as little as a quarter. "We think," says an exuberant Larry Gilbert, CyberCash's vice president and general manager, "it's going to be the core of electronic commerce on the Internet...
That's music to CyberCash, whose revenue will come from usage fees, just like those of credit-card issuers. "On a 25[cents] transaction," says Gilbert, "we'll charge the bank 6[cents], and they'll charge the merchant 8[cents]." As transaction sizes go up, they'll get a much smaller percentage; still, over millions of users, CyberCoin profits could add up to big bucks...
Since Blankenship and David lived in Currier's Gilbert Hall, which is within 1,000 feet of Peabody School, an elementary school, they were also charged with two counts of drug violation in a school or park zone...